The British Getty ruling and its implications for Europe's AI regulation

The development of powerful AI models has triggered an intense regulatory debate in recent years. A central point of contention is the relationship between models and the data on which they are trained. Much of Europe’s data protection and copyright logic relies on the assumption that models “contain” personal or protected content, at least in abstracted form, and could therefore potentially disclose it. Against this background, a recent judgment by the High Court of England has attracted particular attention.