Data protection

It actually happened after the big hearing: the EPP rapporteur withdrew his opposition to the draft, thus enabling the file to progress. The Council already adopted its common position last December while this did not happen in the European Parliament - normally the Parliament is more ahead than the Council where the diverging interest of Member States are not easy to be reconciled. Piero Cipollone, member of the Governing Board of the European Central Bank was the guest of the EP Commitee of Economic and Monetary Affairs. After a general denial of the Patriots - which was actually countered by Mr. Cipollone that the offline version of the digital euro will actually enhance the liberty of citizens in effecting payments - other parliamentary groups asked more relevant questions. Of course the ECB board member could not name the two countries where banks may have difficulties to provide sufficient funds for the digital euro, but emphasised that the findings were based on the extreme cond...

English version of my article on portfolio.hu The hearing in the case C-250/25, Like Company, took place the 10th March – and the Court had a lot of questions about how large language models (LLMs) use the information they are trained on and how chatbots reflect the training data on one hand and data found on the Internet on the other – in the context of copyright on the digital market (Directive 2001/29/EC and Directive 2019/790). The questions, whether using a published article to train an LLM involves reproduction and whether repeating a part of the article large enough to be protected by copyright or a related right in the response of a chatbot is communication to the public, are to frame the decision whether the publisher’s right was infringed. Namely, it was not the author but the publisher who sued Google for infringement of copyright. An article in a small local portal about a celebrity wanting to settle dolphins in the biggest warm water lake of Europe, the Balaton in Hungary,...