🎵 Suno loses its German copyright case

GEMA, Germany's music rights body, sued AI startup Suno for training its models on protected recordings without a license. Munich Regional Court ruled for GEMA: a license is required both for training and for generating music.

The case involved six tracks — "Rasputin," "Mambo No. 5," "Forever Young" and others. Leaked code from earlier this month showed Suno's training data included over 113,000 hours of YouTube Music. Eight months ago, the same court ruled against OpenAI over song lyrics in ChatGPT.

Suno says the ruling "fundamentally mischaracterizes" its technology and is weighing an appeal — per Variety, a tough sell when "Rasputin" was apparently in the dataset.

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