OpenAI must pay a licensing fee to use copyrighted song lyrics in its artificial intelligence (AI) models, including ChatGPT, a German court ruled in a landmark case on Tuesday.
Presiding judge Elke Schwager ruled in favour of the Society for musical performing and mechanical reproduction rights (GEMA), Germany’s largest music rights collecting organisation, which lodged a complaint last year against the US-based OpenAI over its use of copyrighted lyrics.
