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Tobias Holzmüller

person · CEO of GEMA (German music rights society)Credibility: 58%

Why this score? Chief executive of a litigant rights society; speaks with authority on GEMA's cases but from an interested party's position.

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AI models built on stolen intellectual property have no protection under the law, and providers must pay for licenses.±

Context: Right on licensing, overstated on law. Twelve days after the ruling Suno licensed BMG's catalogue and settled its prior use, following its November 2025 Warner deal — providers are paying. But "no protection under the law" remains a first-instance German holding under appeal; US courts have found comparable training fair use.