Google AI chatbot's use of press items may infringe copyright rules, EU court adviser says
Maciej Szpunar said training Gemini on copyrighted material is allowed, but using publisher articles to generate answers may infringe rights.
- On Tuesday, Advocate General Maciej Szpunar told Europe's highest court that Google's Gemini may infringe copyright when retrieving and reusing press publications to answer user queries.
- The opinion concerns case C-250, involving Hungarian website operator Like Company, which sued Google after Gemini generated summaries of its articles without permission.
- Szpunar clarified that copyright protects "only the specific form of expression," not "mere facts," while training models is "freely permitted under the text and data mining exception."
- Although these opinions are not binding, they are "usually followed by the court's judges," positioning Szpunar's interpretation as likely precedent for European Union AI regulation.
- A final ruling on the matter is expected in the coming months, settling the first case before the Court to examine generative AI and copyright law.
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Google's use of news from the press in its Gemini chatbot to answer questions from internet users may violate copyright laws in certain circumstances, said on Tuesday a consultant from the highest court in Europe. Attorney General Maciej Szpunar is advising the Court of Justice of the European Union, based in Luxembourg, in a case moved by the Hungarian company Like Company, site operator, against the artificial intelligence chatbot Gemini, Goog…
Are press articles reproduced or made publicly available by AI? Under certain circumstances, the final request for a procedure at the ECJ states. However, the "reported fact" is not protected.
Google's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Gemini may in certain cases violate copyright rules by using content from press publications, an advisor to the European Union's (EU) top court said on Tuesday.
Google AI chatbot's use of press items may infringe copyright rules, EU court adviser says
Google's use of press stories in its Gemini chatbot to respond to queries from internet users can infringe copyright rules in certain circumstances, an adviser to Europe's highest court said on Tuesday.
When an AI chatbot uses online press articles to formulate answers, this can in certain cases violate the rights of news publishers....
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