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German court rules AI music generator Suno violated copyrights, rejects fair use defense

A Munich court ruled that AI music generator Suno violated copyrights through both training and output, finding six songs reproducibly stored in Suno's models and rejecting both Germany's text-and-data-mining exception and the US fair use defense. The ruling is not final, and several key questions remain open.

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A Munich court ruled that AI music generator Suno violated copyrights through both training and output. The court found six songs reproducibly stored in Suno's models and rejected both Germany's text-and-data-mining exception and the US fair use defense. The ruling isn't final, and several key questions remain open.

The article German court rules AI music generator Suno violated copyrights, rejects fair use defense appeared first on The Decoder.

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