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

> Source: <https://the-decoder.com/german-court-rules-ai-music-generator-suno-violated-copyrights-rejects-fair-use-defense/>
> Published: 2026-08-01 10:40:50+00:00

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.

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