27/08/2026
💭💡 Is AI music theft?! 🥷 A landmark ruling has dropped, and every AI music company, music rights holder, and tech forward label should pay attention. 👩🏻⚖️
A Munich court ruled that Suno, the AI music generator, infringed copyrights held by GEMA, Germany’s music collecting society representing 100,000 composers, lyricists and publishers. By training its models on songs in GEMA’s repertoire without permission, the court found Suno’s outputs were “reproducibly close” to the originals and that training on unlicensed music is prohibited. The case centered on six well known songs, including Boney M.’s “Daddy Cool,” which GEMA’s lawyers were able to prompt Suno to nearly replicate.
But the biggest industry impact? The court held that EU law applies even when the AI model was trained in the U.S. If this stands, any AI company serving EU users could face litigation, no matter where their models were built. This case highlights the “train first, license later” pattern in AI but signals a new era where transparency and licensing are no longer optional.
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A German court ruled AI music company Suno infringed copyright by using works represented by GEMA without permission and downloaded songs by stream-ripping.
