"A court in Munich has ruled that OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT violated German copyright laws by using hits from top-selling musicians to train its language models in what creative industry advocates described as a landmark European ruling. The Munich regional court sided in favour of Germany's music rights society GEMA, which said ChatGPT had harvested protected lyrics by popular artists to learn from them."
"The collecting society GEMA, which manages the rights of composers, lyricists and music publishers and has approximately 100,000 members, filed the case against OpenAI in November 2024. The lawsuit was seen as a key European test case in a campaign to stop AI scraping of creative output. OpenAI can appeal against the decision. ChatGPT allows users to ask questions and type commands into a chatbot, which responds with text that resembles human language patterns."
"The model underlying ChatGPT is trained on widely available data. The case revolved around nine of the most recognisable German hits of recent decades, which were used by ChatGPT to hone its language capabilities. They included Herbert Gronemeyer's 1984 synth-pop sendup of masculinity, Manner (Men), and Helene Fischer's Atemlos Durch die Nacht (Breathless Through the Night), which was the unofficial anthem of the German side during the 2014 football World Cup."
Munich regional court found that OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT violated German copyright law by harvesting protected lyrics from top-selling musicians to train its language models. The collecting society GEMA filed the lawsuit in November 2024 on behalf of composers, lyricists and music publishers, citing nine recognisable German hits used to hone the model's language capabilities. The presiding judge ordered OpenAI to pay undisclosed damages and rejected OpenAI's argument that users should bear legal liability for generated output. GEMA said it hopes to negotiate compensation mechanisms with OpenAI. OpenAI said its models absorb entire training sets rather than store specific songs and can appeal the decision.
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