{"id":33095,"date":"2025-11-12T19:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T19:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=33095"},"modified":"2025-11-12T19:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T19:36:11","slug":"court-rules-that-openai-violated-german-copyright-law-ordered-it-to-pay-damages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=33095","title":{"rendered":"Court rules that OpenAI violated German copyright law; ordered it to pay damages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A German court ruled that\u00a0OpenAI\u2019s\u00a0ChatGPT violated\u00a0the nation\u2019s\u00a0copyright laws by training its language models on licensed musical work\u00a0without\u00a0permission, multiple news outlets, including\u00a0The Guardian\u00a0reported.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The decision\u00a0came from a lawsuit that GEMA, the society that handles music rights in Germany, filed last November against OpenAI.\u00a0The company\u00a0was ordered to pay an undisclosed amount of damages to GEMA,\u00a0but\u00a0said it disagreed with the ruling and is \u201cconsidering next steps.\u201d\u00a0GEMA, meanwhile, regarded this as the \u201cfirst landmark AI ruling in Europe.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cToday, we have set a precedent that protects and clarifies the rights of authors: even operators of AI tools such as ChatGPT must comply with copyright law,\u201d GEMA chief executive Tobias\u00a0Holzm\u00fcller\u00a0said, as The Guardian reported. \u201cToday, we have successfully defended the livelihoods of music creators.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OpenAI is being\u00a0sued by other creatives and media groups\u00a0over the same issue.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A German court ruled that\u00a0OpenAI\u2019s\u00a0ChatGPT violated\u00a0the nation\u2019s\u00a0copyright laws by training its language models on licensed musical work\u00a0without\u00a0permission, multiple news outlets, including\u00a0The Guardian\u00a0reported.\u00a0\u00a0 The decision\u00a0came from a lawsuit that GEMA, the society that handles music rights in Germany, filed last November against OpenAI.\u00a0The company\u00a0was ordered to pay an undisclosed amount of damages to GEMA,\u00a0but\u00a0said it disagreed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[5547,160,7208,6066,175,1430,7244,1040,666,7829],"class_list":{"0":"post-33095","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-copyright","9":"tag-court","10":"tag-damages","11":"tag-german","12":"tag-law","13":"tag-openai","14":"tag-ordered","15":"tag-pay","16":"tag-rules","17":"tag-violated"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}