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German music collecting society GEMA sues OpenAI for copyright infringement in Munich

( November 13, 2024, 17:00 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex summary:GEMA has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in the Munich Regional Court for using copyrighted works without a license to train its artificial intelligence models. The German music rights collecting society alleges that the generative AI model has "exploited" song lyrics to train its ChatGPT chatbot. GEMA aims to set up a licence fee to compensate creators and music publishers for the European subsidiary OpenAI Ireland Ltd. and American parent company OpenAI LLC. "Anyone who wants to use these songs must acquire a license and remunerate the authors fairly," says GEMA chief Tobias Holzmüller.Press release / 13 November 2024...

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