German court rules OpenAI infringed lyrics in Europe’s first major AI music ruling

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The first serious European court decision on AI and music is in – and rightsholders won. On Nov. 11, the Munich Regional Court ruled that OpenAI’s ChatGPT software infringed copyrights to compositions represented by GEMA, the German collective management organization. The judge ordered OpenAI to pay damages but did not say what they might be.

The OpenAI case involved song lyrics – in particular, compositions by star singer Herbert Grönemeyer, among others – which the court found were used to train ChatGPT without seeking a license, and then made those lyrics available in response to prompts by users

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