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🇩🇪German Court Rules Against OpenAI in a Copyright Case The 42nd Civil Chamber of the Munich Regional Court has ruled that OpenAI violated German copyright law by using song lyrics in the training of its large language models, according to Reuters. The company has been ordered to pay an undisclosed amount in damages for the unauthorized use of copyrighted material. This decision could shape future European standards on how AI developers handle copyrighted data in model training. As one of the first rulings of its kind in Europe, it underscores the growing legal scrutiny around data provenance, training transparency, and the boundaries of fair use in the development of generative AI systems. #AI#Law#Copyright#Ethics#OpenAI#Germany#AIGovernance#GenerativeAI