The legal question before the CJEU is narrower than the public framing suggests, and that narrowness is what makes it consequential. The [European Copyright Society's opinion on Case C-250/25]( liked-company-before-the-grand-chamber-of-the-court-of-justice-of-the-european-union-opinion-by-the-european-copyright-society/) positions the core dispute around whether the text-and-data-mining exception in the EU's 2019 Copyright Directive covers the kind of large-scale ingestion that trains a general-purpose model like Gemini — or whether that exception was written narrowly enough that commercial AI training falls outside it. Google's defense turns on the claim that its underlying model does not store or republish content;…