{"id":106178,"date":"2026-07-15T01:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T01:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/106178\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T01:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T01:29:12","slug":"publishers-sue-google-over-alleged-use-of-books-to-train-ai-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/106178\/","title":{"rendered":"Publishers sue Google over alleged use of books to train AI models"},"content":{"rendered":"

Multiple book publishers sued Google<\/a> on Tuesday for allegedly stealing copyrighted content, using it to train artificial intelligence<\/a> (AI) models and then generating content that “directly” competes with the original authors’ work<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“The scale and speed at which Gemini can create books and compete with human writers is unprecedented,” the lawsuit says.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit<\/a>, which requests class action status, was filed in New York by Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, Elsevier, author Scott Turow and his publishing<\/a> company S.C.R.I.B.E.<\/p>\n

They allege that “Google<\/a> secretly copied millions of works” that were provided to Google Books and other services for “limited purposes” and then used that content to train Gemini, its AI model.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, they claim the content generated by Gemini directly competes with the authors who wrote the original work.<\/p>\n

“Gemini even tailors outputs to mimic the expressive elements and creative choices of specific authors,” the lawsuit says.<\/p>\n

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The plaintiffs requested an injunction and an unspecified amount of damages.<\/p>\n

It’s the latest copyright infringement<\/a> lawsuit brought against AI<\/a> developers.<\/p>\n

In May, multiple publishers \u2013 including Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier and Turow \u2013 sued Meta on similar grounds in a New York court.<\/p>\n

A US judge in September approved a $1.5 billion settlement between Anthropic and several authors who claimed the San Francisco company illegally copied their work to train its AI model, Claude.<\/p>\n

It was a partial victory for Anthropic<\/a> \u2013 a judge ruled that the company’s use of books to train Claude was transformative enough to constitute “fair use” under US<\/a> law but that other uses of pirated materials were not.<\/p>\n

Meta also won a partial victory last year when a US judge in San Francisco ruled that its use of copyrighted materials was “fair use”. That case was filed by comedian Sarah Silverman, author Ta-Nehisi Coates and others.<\/p>\n

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