For once justice is moving faster in Europe than here, as a German court became the first to find OpenAI guilty of copyright infringement. The case, brought by GEMA–the German music rights organization–accused ChatGPT of violating German copyright laws in reproducing lyrics by musician Herbert Groenemeyer and others. OpenAI’s defense was to argue that its own users were the ones infringing copyright when they prompted ChatGPT to generate the lyrics. Judge Elke Schwager found that OpenAI trained its LLM on copyrighted content from nine German songs. OpenAI will have to pay damages, though the amount was not specified. The ruling […]
