Editor’s Note: Throughout 2025, ComplexDiscovery staff covered a comprehensive circuit of industry-defining events, gathering insights from SXSWEDU in Austin, Latitude59 in Estonia, the Dublin Tech Summit, and LegalTechTalk in London. This tour continued through the Tallinn Digital Summit and culminated in the dual-use defense focus of BORDERLAND at SLUSH 2025 in Helsinki. Beyond these summits,

The Higher Regional Court of Hamburg has issued a ruling that contains important guidelines for the admissibility of AI training and data mining.

In its ruling dated 10 December 2025, the court dismissed the appeal brought by the photographer Robert Kneschke against the first-instance judgment of the Regional Court of Hamburg dated 27 September 2024 (Ref.: 310