Munich court orders Suno to disclose revenue in copyright case

On July 31, the Munich Regional Court ruled that AI music company Suno had infringed rights represented by the German collecting society GEMA in case 42 O 763/25. The decision is not final and can be appealed.

The case involved six works: “Atemlos durch die Nacht”, “Rasputin”, “Big in Japan”, “Forever Young”, “Daddy Cool” and the refrain of “Mambo No. 5”. At the March hearing, both sides accepted that the songs had been used for training; GEMA also presented outputs in which their music remained recognisable after simple prompts.

Reuters reported that the court found Suno had no right to process works from GEMA’s repertoire and ordered the company to disclose revenue connected to the infringement. The amount of damages will be determined later.

The significance lies in the court looking beyond the abstract question of whether copyrighted music may be used for AI training. It also had to consider what remains recognisable from that material in a model’s output.