FSE Insights - GEMA vs OpenAI: a world first to protect copyright in the face of AI

GEMA is the first collecting society worldwide to file a lawsuit against a provider of generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems for the unlicensed use of protected musical works.

Specifically, it concerns the US company OpenAI, the autogenerative chatbot systems operator. GEMA accuses OpenAI of reproducing protected song lyrics by German authors without having acquired licenses or paid the authors in question. The aim is to prove that OpenAI systematically uses GEMA's repertoire to train its systems.

https://www.gema.de/en/w/gema-files-lawsuit-against-openai