GEMA is the first authors’ society in the world to take legal action against a generative AI developer, and is taking on the biggest of them all right from the start: Open AI. For several months now, the major authors’ societies have been trying unsuccessfully to negotiate with generative AI developers. Several were ready to take legal action: GEMA, the German equivalent of Sacem, is leading the way, with a lawsuit against OpenAI for copyright infringement with its ChatGPT large language model. The case is being brought in Germany, but make no mistake about it: it is essentially European law that will be applied here, and the outcome will have an impact across the EU, for authors and AI developers alike. At…
