{"id":279993,"date":"2025-11-13T08:22:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T08:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/279993\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T08:22:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T08:22:12","slug":"court-rules-that-openai-violated-german-copyright-law-orders-it-to-pay-damages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/279993\/","title":{"rendered":"Court rules that OpenAI violated German copyright law; orders it to pay damages"},"content":{"rendered":"<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 works\u00a0without\u00a0permission, multiple news outlets, including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/nov\/11\/chatgpt-violated-copyright-laws-german-court-rules\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The Guardian, reported.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ruling stemmed from a lawsuit that GEMA, a German collective that manages music rights in Germany, filed last November against OpenAI.\u00a0The company\u00a0was ordered to pay an undisclosed amount in damages to GEMA but\u00a0said it disagreed with the ruling and was \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 Holzm\u00fcller said, 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 sued by other <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/11\/03\/studio-ghibli-and-other-japanese-publishers-want-openai-to-stop-training-on-their-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">creatives and media groups<\/a> over the same issue.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A German court ruled that\u00a0OpenAI\u2019s\u00a0ChatGPT violated\u00a0the nation\u2019s\u00a0copyright laws by training its language models on licensed musical works\u00a0without\u00a0permission, multiple&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,35554,20132,278,2747,61],"class_list":["post-279993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-copyright","tag-in-brief","tag-openai","tag-sam-altman","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}