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

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

The Decoder · Aug 1, 2026, 10:40 AM UTC

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.…