Overview
- Landgericht München I plans to announce its decision at 10:00 on Tuesday in case 42 O 14139/24.
- GEMA alleges OpenAI used nine protected German song lyrics to train ChatGPT and that the system reproduced them verbatim or nearly so on simple prompts.
- OpenAI disputes infringement, citing copyright exceptions for text and data mining and asserting that users are the producers responsible for outputs.
- The court may either rule now or seek a preliminary ruling from the European Court of Justice, a step that could shape EU-wide guidance on licensing and liability.
- GEMA positions the lawsuit as a push to secure licensing deals and remuneration for its roughly 100,000 members for AI uses of their works.