A German court ruled against AI music startup Suno in a copyright lawsuit brought by music rights organization GEMA. The Munich Regional Court found that Suno violated copyright law by using music from GEMA’s catalog to train its AI models and reproduce protected works without a license. The ruling requires AI companies to obtain licenses for commercial use of GEMA’s repertoire, covering both AI model training and music generation. Suno said it disagrees with the ruling based on what it calls a fundamental misunderstanding of how its technology works, and is considering an appeal. The decision follows GEMA’s victory against OpenAI eight months ago and comes as leaked source code revealed that Suno trained its AI on more than 113,000 hours of YouTube Music, 62,000 hours from Pond5, and 12,000 hours from Deezer.
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