ChatGPT violated copyright law by harvesting musicians' lyrics, German court rules
Munich court ruled ChatGPT violated German copyright by using protected song lyrics to train its models, ordering damages and allowing OpenAI the right to appeal.
OpenAI loses song lyrics copyright case in German court DW 11/11/2025
A Munich court ruled large language models using song lyrics without paid licenses infringe German authors' rights and ordered OpenAI to be charged damages.