Music rights group scores landmark legal victory in copyright battle with OpenAI
Composer tells Charting court's ruling is 'the best outcome we could have hoped for'
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WHAT’S HAPPENED?
CREATORS ARE celebrating after a court in Germany ruled that ChatGPT violates European copyright laws by reproducing lyrics used to train OpenAI’s generative models. In a landmark decision Munich’s regional court sided with German collecting society GEMA which had claimed ChatGPT’s reproduced lyrics amounted to copyright infringement, and that OpenAI needed a licence.
In this Quick Take we explain the background to the momentous ruling and why the court came down in favour of GEMA, which manages the rights of more than 100,000 composers, lyricists and music publishers. We have reactions from GEMA and a leading German composer, OpenAI’s response, and our analysis.
