Publishers Sue Google over Gemini Book Training
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Publishers sue Google over Gemini book training
Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, Elsevier, bestselling author Scott Turow and S.C.R.I.B.E., Inc. filed a proposed federal class-action lawsuit against Google on July 10, 2026, accusing the company of copying copyrighted books and journal articles without authorization to develop its Gemini artificial intelligence models. The case, Hachette Book Group Inc. et al. v. Google LLC, was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District …
DECRYPTAGE - The American entity of Hachette and a coalition of publishers accuse Google of knowingly overtaking intellectual property to train its family of Gemini models. Complaints were also filed against Meta and other companies of AI
Publishers and authors sue Google for Gemini's training with protected books. The stakes go far beyond this single file.
Several publishing houses, including Hachette, Cengre and Elsevier, accuse Google of using millions of copyrighted works without permission to drive its Gemini artificial intelligence model. The complainants ask for the cessation of these practices and damages.
Three major publishing groups and the US writer Scott Turow accuse Google of using millions of copyright-protected texts for the training of its Gemini models without permission. According to the complaint, Google was aware of the legal and financial risks involved.
Google finds itself once again in the judicial turmoil, accused of having built its AI model on millions of protected works, in flagrant violation of agreements with publishers.
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