A German music rights body is suing OpenAI for copyright infringement, claiming the US tech giant’s AI systems reproduced several artists’ lyrics without permission, a court heard Monday.

It is the latest court case that OpenAI has faced, with media groups and authors among those claiming that the company’s ChatGPT chatbot has been trained on their work without permission.

The music rights organisation GEMA claimed that OpenAI had “systematically” used its repertoire to train its artificial intelligence models, according to a statement from a regional Munich court which is hearing the case.

GEMA — which has more than 100,000 composers, songwriters and publishers as members — is representing lyricists of nine German songs in the case, and is seeking unspecified damages.

The court said i

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