AI and copyright: the Advocate General considers that the TDM exception applies to generative AI

It all stems from an article about Hungarian singer Kozsó’s dream of introducing dolphins to Lake Balaton. A web user asks Google’s chatbot to summarise the article for them, specifying the website that published it, which belongs to the publisher Like Company. The chatbot complies. For the publisher, this response illustrates Google’s use of its publications without its consent, and it brings a lawsuit. Before…