A German court sided with the country's music rights society, GEMA, ruling that OpenAI (OPENAI) cannot use song lyrics without a license.

The regional court in Munich found that the company trained its AI on protected content from nine German songs, including ...

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

On November 11, 2025, a Munich court ruled that ChatGPT's use of copyrighted song lyrics violates German copyright law. The collecting society GEMA had sued OpenAI over the use of nine well-known ...

OpenAI lost a copyright infringement case in a lower German court for using popular song lyrics in its ChatGPT language model ...

Heino is one of Germany's most famous crooners, whose bleached hair and sunglasses became his trademark. But he seems to have gone a little off key. He recently gave Nazi-era songs to a homeland ...

One Elvis Presley song contains a mix of English-language lyrics and German-language lyrics. He performed the song in one of his movies. Subsequently, a cover of the track became a massive hit in the ...