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German court rules AI music generator Suno violated copyrights, rejects fair use defense

A Munich court ruled that AI music generator Suno violated copyrights through both training and output. The court found six songs reproducibly stored in Suno's models and rejected both Germany's text-and-data-mining exception and the US fair use defense. The ruling isn't final, and several key questions remain open. The article German court rules AI music generator Suno violated copyrights, rejects fair use defense appeared first on The Decoder .

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Published: 1 August 2026
Source: The Decoder
Category: News
Topics: Copyright & IP · Military & security
Retrieved: 2 August 2026

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ethics.ai (1 August 2026), “German court rules AI music generator Suno violated copyrights, rejects fair use defense,” evidence record 15615, https://ethics.ai/record/15615 (originally published by The Decoder).

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