Gracenote, the Nielsen-owned metadata and identification services company, has filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York a lawsuit against AI company OpenAI for copyright infringement. Gracenote is suing OpenAI for reportedly using its metadata without authorisation or compensation to train OpenAI's ChatGPT and other large models (LLMs), and for "copying the relational framework it uses to connect its metadata." “Being pro-AI and anti-theft aren’t contradictory; they a...

British rights society PRS for Music has launched legal proceedings on March 4 against Valve Corporation, the parent company of Steam, for the unlicensed use of copyrighted repertoire from PRS by the gaming platform. "Since its launch in 2003, Valve has never obtained a license for its use of the rights managed by PRS on behalf of songwriters, composers, and music publishers," said PRS for Music in a statement, to explain the reason behind the proceedings. Steam, which brands itself as the ulti...

German music rights society GEMA was given the opportunity to present its copyright infringement case against AI music generator Suno, during oral proceedings at Munich's Regional Court. This is the first case in Europe to focus on the use of audio content by AI companies. GEMA filed a lawsuit against Suno on January 21, 2025 with the Regional Court in Munich "to enforce the rights of its member." GEMA accused Suno of having used, stored, and reproduced protected recordings of songs from the GEM...