ChatGPT Strikes a Sour Note with German Musicians

OpenAI violated copyright law, German court rules

ChatGPT creator OpenAI violated Germany's national copyright laws, according to a court in Munich.GEMA, a German music rights group, filed a lawsuit against OpenAI last November claiming that the AI company illegally trained its AI models on popular music without consent from the rights holders.This week a German court ruled in favor of GEMA and ordered OpenAI to pay an undisclosed sum in damages.“We disagree with the ruling and are considering …

ChatGPT strikes a sour note with German musicians

OpenAI broke copyright law by using hit song lyrics to train its ChatGPT software without first buying a licence

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Found Guilty Of Copyright Violation In Germany Over Use Of Song Lyrics

ChatGPT is in hot water after a German court said the AI used protected song lyrics without permission. The ruling could reshape how AI companies train their systems in Europe.

OpenAI Loses Copyright Lawsuit in Germany Over Music Training Data

OpenAI has been amongst all sorts of controversy lately and facing a lot of lawsuits, some for ChatGPT and some for training its AI model on publicly available content. Speaking of the latter, a Munich court has ruled that ChatGPT creator OpenAI violated Germany’s national copyright laws by training its AI models on copyrighted music […]

German court rules ChatGPT violated copyright over song lyrics

A regional court in Munich has ruled that OpenAI’s ChatGPT violated German copyright laws by training its language models on protected song lyrics without permission, The Guardian reports. The ruling, described by creative industry advocates as a landmark European decision, sided with Germany’s music rights society, GEMA, which filed the case in November 2024. The lawsuit was centered on nine popular German hit songs, including Herbert Grönemeye…