In an eagerly anticipated judgment dated 27 September 2024 (case number 310 O 227/23) the Hamburg District Court dismissed the complaint by photographer Robert Kneschke asserting claims for copyright infringement against non-profit Large-scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network (LAION) based on the use of his photograph in a data set for training AI image generators. Mr. Kneschke had uploaded his photo on a microstock photography website. The website’s terms of use provide for a restriction of using automated programs, applets, bots or the like to access content on the website including scraping.