Authors, publishers sue Google over alleged AI copyright infringement
Summary
Several authors and publishing companies sued Google in a U.S. court, claiming it copied their books without permission to train its Gemini AI models. The lawsuit says Google used copyrighted materials beyond legal limits and ignored warnings about legal risks.Key Facts
- Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, Elsevier, and author Scott Turow filed the lawsuit in New York federal court.
- The complaint alleges Google used books from Google Books and other sources without permission to train AI models.
- Google is accused of downloading content including from unauthorized pirate sites and behind paywalls.
- Internal Google documents reportedly warned that using books to train AI could lead to fines up to $100 billion.
- The lawsuit claims Google did not inform authors or publishers about copying their works for AI training.
- This lawsuit follows previous legal efforts by the same publishers and authors to protect copyrights.
- Similar lawsuits have been filed against other AI companies like OpenAI and Meta over copyright issues.
- One lawsuit against Meta was dismissed, with a judge ruling the AI training was legal under fair use.
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