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A Munich court ruled that AI music generator Suno violated copyrights through both its training data and its outputs…

…rejecting Germany's text-and-data-mining exception and the US fair use defense. The decision is a major legal setback for generative AI music companies.

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A Munich court ruled that AI music generator Suno violated copyrights through both its training data and its outputs, rejecting Germany's text-and-data-mining exception and the US fair use defense. The decision is a major legal setback for generative AI music companies.