AI and copyright: the Like Company v Google case is facing delays
The case is, however, eagerly awaited. It stems from a lawsuit brought in Hungary by Like Company, the publisher of several news websites, against Google. The publisher accuses Gemini of having provided, in response to a query concerning one of its articles, a result reproducing part of its content, and also claims that its publications were used without authorisation to train the model. The Hungarian judge referred… the case to the CJEU in April 2025 . The four questions raised cover a large part of the current dispute between rights holders and AI developers. In particular, the Court must determine whether the output by an LLM chatbot of content that is partially identical to a press publication constitutes communication to the public; whether the training of an LLM amounts to…