
#39 A Turning Point in AI & Copyright: How Germany’s GEMA Won Against OpenAI
In November 2025, the Munich Regional Court delivered what is widely regarded as a landmark ruling: GEMA sued OpenAI, claiming the U.S.-based AI firm had used copyrighted German song lyrics to train its models and then reproduced them in its chatbot outputs. The Court sided with GEMA, stating that large language models (LLMs) can store and reproduce protected content and




