A coalition of major book publishers and authors has filed a class-action lawsuit against Google, alleging that the company illegally used millions of copyrighted books to train its Gemini AI models. The publishers contend that Google repurposed works provided for services like Google Books and Google Scholar for commercial AI training without permission or payment, constituting a "prolific infringement of copyrighted materials." This legal action, filed in New York federal court, seeks statutory damages, an injunction against further infringement, and the destruction of unauthorized copies, adding to a growing wave of lawsuits against AI companies over copyright concerns. AI
IMPACT This lawsuit highlights the escalating legal challenges and potential financial risks for AI developers concerning the use of copyrighted material for model training.
RANK_REASON Lawsuit filed by major industry players against a tech giant over AI training data copyright.
- Association of American Publishers
- Gemini
- U.S. Publishers
- Anthropic
- Elsevier
- Google Books
- Google Scholar
- Hachette Book Group
- Meta
- NK Jemisin
- OpenAI
- Scott Turow
- The Fifth Season
- Who Could That Be at This Hour?
- Book Publishers [2022–present definition]
- Mastodon
- The Guardian
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