{"id":105582,"date":"2026-07-14T16:05:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T16:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/105582\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T16:05:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T16:05:19","slug":"hachette-scott-turow-sue-google-for-using-books-to-train-ai-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/105582\/","title":{"rendered":"Hachette, Scott Turow Sue Google for Using Books to Train AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Major book publisher Hachette Book Group and bestselling author Scott Turow joined educational publisher Cengage Learning and scientific publisher Elsevier in filing a <a data-ylk=\"slk:lawsuit;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/publishers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Hachette-v.-Google-Dkt.-1-Complaint2.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">lawsuit<\/a> against Google on Friday, accusing the tech giant of using millions of copyrighted books and journal articles without their permission to build its Gemini artificial intelligence models.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, claims Google built its AI by copying books and other written works from a variety of sources \u2014 including Google Books, online libraries and allegedly pirated websites \u2014 without paying or obtaining permission from the authors and publishers who own them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Desperate to maintain its online dominance, Google abandoned its early motto of &#8216;Don&#8217;t be evil,'&#8221; the complaint states, accusing the company of carrying out &#8220;one of the most prolific infringements of copyrighted materials in history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The plaintiffs include Hachette, one of the world&#8217;s largest book publishers; Elsevier, the publisher of scientific journals including &#8220;The Lancet&#8221; and &#8220;Cell&#8221;; Cengage, a leading educational publisher; and Turow, the bestselling author of &#8220;Presumed Guilty&#8221; and &#8220;Presumed Innocent.&#8221; They argue Google built a multibillion-dollar AI business by using their work while bypassing a growing market in which AI companies pay publishers to license content for training.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The lawsuit also argues Gemini now competes directly with the books it learned from by generating detailed summaries, textbook-style explanations and other written content that could reduce demand for the original materials. The complaint cites examples involving Turow&#8217;s novels and Cengage textbooks to illustrate their claim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The publishers are seeking damages and a court order preventing Google from continuing the alleged copyright infringement. Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The post <a data-ylk=\"slk:Hachette, Scott Turow Sue Google for Using Books to Train AI;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/industry-news\/tech\/hachette-scott-turow-google-gemini-ai-copyright-lawsuit\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Hachette, Scott Turow Sue Google for Using Books to Train AI<\/a> appeared first on <a data-ylk=\"slk:TheWrap;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">TheWrap<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Major book publisher Hachette Book Group and bestselling author Scott Turow joined educational publisher Cengage Learning and scientific&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[54759,54744,54758,2408,132,54757,1430,54745,54746],"class_list":["post-105582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-google","tag-book-publisher","tag-cengage-learning","tag-educational-publisher","tag-gemini","tag-google","tag-google-books","tag-google-gemini","tag-hachette-book-group","tag-scott-turow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}