{"id":20817,"date":"2025-11-12T08:37:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T07:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/12\/chatgpt-violated-copyright-law-by-learning-from-song-lyrics-german-court-rules\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T08:37:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T07:37:30","slug":"chatgpt-violated-copyright-law-by-learning-from-song-lyrics-german-court-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/12\/chatgpt-violated-copyright-law-by-learning-from-song-lyrics-german-court-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT violated copyright law by \u2018learning\u2019 from song lyrics, German court rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI ordered to pay undisclosed damages for training its language models on artists\u2019 work without permission<\/p>\n<p>A court in Munich has ruled that OpenAI\u2019s chatbot ChatGPT violated German copyright laws by using hits from top-selling musicians to train its language models in what creative industry advocates described as a landmark European ruling.<\/p>\n<p>The Munich regional court sided in favour of Germany\u2019s music rights society GEMA, which said ChatGPT had harvested protected lyrics by popular artists to \u201clearn\u201d from them.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/nov\/11\/chatgpt-violated-copyright-laws-german-court-rules\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/63ac04071d060dfe279c5e9016ab995ac148e9d6\/123_0_2530_2024\/master\/2530.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=2994724dfbbc83159388c5899430f26c\" title=\"ChatGPT violated copyright law by \u2018learning\u2019 from song lyrics, German court rules\" \/>OpenAI ordered to pay undisclosed damages for training its language models on artists\u2019 work without permission<br \/>\nA court in Munich has ruled that OpenAI\u2019s chatbot ChatGPT violated German copyright laws by using hits from top-selling musicians to train its language models in what creative industry advocates described as a landmark European ruling.<br \/>\nThe Munich regional court sided in favour of Germany\u2019s music rights society GEMA, which said ChatGPT had harvested protected lyrics by popular artists to \u201clearn\u201d from them. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI ordered to pay undisclosed damages for training its language models on artists\u2019 work without permission A court in Munich has ruled that OpenAI\u2019s chatbot ChatGPT violated German copyright laws by using hits from top-selling musicians to train its language models in what creative industry advocates described as a landmark European ruling. The Munich regional &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/12\/chatgpt-violated-copyright-law-by-learning-from-song-lyrics-german-court-rules\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ChatGPT violated copyright law by \u2018learning\u2019 from song lyrics, German court rules<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20817"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}