OpenAI to focus on ‘memorization’ in appeal against Munich court copyright ruling
By Frank Hersey ( December 12, 2025, 13:45 GMT | Insight) -- OpenAI looks set to focus its attempt to dismantle a Munich court’s ruling on copyright on the finding that its model memorized training data, according to senior staff members. OpenAI is setting aside the problem of infringing outputs from earlier versions of ChatGPT in its appeal against a Munich court finding in favor of German songwriters, and will focus on the judges’ assertions of memorization in AI models....
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