The LAION team responded again that there had been no copyright infringement. The letter also threatened to collect claims for damages from Kneschke, saying he filed an unjustified copyright claim.Īt the end of March, Kneschke decided to send out a cease-and-desist request, which Motherboard viewed, that asked the LAION team to take his images out of the training dataset and provide information on the extent to which the works were used, how long they were used, and where they got the images from. Our client simply does not have any pictures that could be deleted.” “However, since our client does not save any of the photographs you have complained about, you have no right to deletion. It cannot be ruled out that the database may also contain links to images that you are the author of,” the letter, written by the law firm Heidrich Rechtsanwälte on behalf of LAION and viewed by Motherboard, said. “Our client only maintains a database that contains links to image files that are publicly available on the Internet. A day later, he wrote on his blog, he received a letter from the organization that said it was compliant with copyright laws and that it is not possible to remove his images. After seeing another photographer comment online about asking to have their images removed from the LAION dataset, Kneschke decided to contact them about his own work in February.

Invoice photographer