Authors, publishers sue Google over alleged AI copyright infringement
Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, Elsevier, and author Scott Turow have filed a lawsuit against Google in a federal United States court in New York, alleging the Silicon Valley tech giant committed copyright infringement while training its Gemini AI models. “Google willfully sidestepped this longstanding system designed to protect copyrights and compensate authors and publishers through a series of deliberate choices to develop Gemini1,” the nearly 60-page complaint filed on Friday said.
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Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, Elsevier, and author Scott Turow have filed a lawsuit against Google in a federal United States court in New York, alleging the Silicon Valley tech giant committed copyright infringement while training its Gemini AI models. “Google willfully sidestepped this longstanding system designed to protect copyrights and compensate authors and publishers through a series of deliberate choices to develop Gemini1,” the nearly 60-page complaint filed on Friday said. The case alleges that Google first copied books as source material through Google Books, claiming that the company used books it “obtained for strictly limited purposes in connection with Google Books and other Google services”. It also alleges that Google “downloaded web scrapes of virtually the entire internet, including from known pirate sources and from behind legitimate paywalls”.
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- Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, Elsevier, and author Scott Turow have filed a lawsuit against Google in a federal United States court in New York, alleging the Silicon Valley tech giant committed copyright infringement while training its Gemini AI models. “Google willfully sidestepped this longstanding system designed to protect copyrights and compensate authors and publishers through a series of deliberate choices to develop Gemini1,” the nearly 60-page complaint filed on Friday said.
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