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ChatGPT Reportedly Found to Reproduce Protected German Lyrics in Copyright Case
- Occurred
- Nov 11, 2025
- Published
- Nov 11, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A Munich regional court ruled that ChatGPT reportedly reproduced protected German song lyrics and that OpenAI's models were trained on copyrighted texts, including works by musician Herbert Grönemeyer, without authorization. The court reportedly found both memorization of nine songs and lyric output to infringe exploitation rights. OpenAI disputes the ruling and may appeal. Damages were ordered, with implications for AI training on copyrighted works.
Developers
- OpenAI
Deployers
- OpenAI
Harmed parties
- Songwriters
- publishers
- Musicians
- Herbert Grönemeyer
- German songwriters
- German publishers
- German musicians
- German artists
- GEMA
- artists
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: ChatGPT reproduced copyrighted lyrics, leading to court ruling and damages for AI training on protected works.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8