The Munich Regional Court has ruled in favour of GEMA, Germany's music rights society, in its copyright case against Suno. GEMA had sued in early 2025, saying Suno trained on members' songs without permission and produced soundalikes of them.
The court applied US law to the training done in America and found fair use did not cover it, because members' works show up in Suno's outputs. It set the case apart from the Bartz and Kadrey rulings, where US courts accepted fair use but the training material did not surface in what users saw; here simple prompts produced close copies.
Under German law, the court also held Suno liable for storing the models on servers in Germany and for reproducing and playing the soundalike tracks without a licence.
Suno disputes the ruling, says it was built to make new songs rather than copy old ones, and is weighing an appeal. GEMA, which also won against OpenAI, wants EU lawmakers to stop AI firms escaping to countries with weak copyright.
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