aceBook publishers sue Google for copyright infringement over Gemini AI training
A group of major publishers have filed a lawsuit against Google, accusing the company of illegally using millions of copyrighted books to help build its Gemini artificial intelligence models, in “one of the most prolific infringements of copyrighted materials in history”. The case, filed in federal court in New York, has been brought by three publishers – Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, and Elsevier – and bestselling American author Scott Turow. The publishers argue that Google repurposed books that had b…
Major book publishers allege Google illegally copied millions of copyrighted books supplied for limited services to train its Gemini AI models without permission or payment, harming authors and publishers through competing AI-generated substitutes.
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- JournalismThe Guardian2026-07-14
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Truvace Impact Record TRV-2026-0699, v1: “Book publishers sue Google for copyright infringement over Gemini AI training.” Truvace, 2026-08-09. /record/TRV-2026-0699 (accessed at citation time). sha256 96c823e140c5ab6d…
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