Key holding or allegation
No domestic merits holding; the Hungarian court referred EU-law questions to the CJEU.
Why it matters
National origin of the first major CJEU generative-AI copyright reference.
Facts
Hungarian press publisher Like Company alleges Gemini reproduced and made protected press content available without authorisation.
Issues before the court
Domestic dispute generated questions concerning LLM training, reproduction, TDM and chatbot outputs that were referred to the CJEU.
What the court did not decide
All referred EU-law merits questions and the ultimate domestic infringement outcome.
Procedural timeline
Budapest Kornyeki Torvenyszek
Preliminary reference made: Hungarian court referred EU-law questions arising from Like Company's Gemini copyright dispute to the CJEU.