S.A. Jamendo v. Nvidia Corporation

On 22 June 2026, S.A. Jamendo filed a claim in the US District Court for the Central District of California against Nvidia Corporation. The Plaintiff runs a platform Jamendo.com of music by independent artists. It seeks damages for copyright infringement and breach of contract alleging that Nvidia unlawfully used the its MTG-Jamendo Dataset of music in commercial AI products without authorisation or compliance with applicable licensing terms.

The MTG-Jamendo Dataset is publicly available on GitHub under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license, which permits use only for non-commercial purposes with attribution and requires derivative works to be shared under the same terms. The Complaint alleges that Nvidia commercially exploited the dataset (including through its Fugatto and Audio Flamingo products) without permission or authorisation, and failed to comply with the non-commercial use restriction. It states that Nvidia necessarily reproduced, copied, transformed, stored, and created derivative works of copyrighted material without compliance with licensing restrictions.

The Plaintiff brings claims for copyright infringement under 17 U.S.C. s. 101 et seq., breach of contract regarding the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license and terms of use, and unjust enrichment.

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