Google Faces Another Lawsuit Alleging Its AI Violated Copyrights

Google "cashed in" on its relationships with publishers to share their works online "by brazenly copying millions of copyrighted works" to train its AI in violation of copyright law, a new lawsuit from publishers and authors alleges.

Hachette Book Group, Cengage, Elsevier and author Scott Turow filed the lawsuit in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on July 10. If those names sound familiar, it may be because they teamed with publishers McGraw-Hill and Macmillan to sue Meta over similar claims in May.

"The scale and speed at which Gemini can create books and compete with human writers is unprecedented," the complaint says, "and it can only do that because Google copied plaintiffs' and the class's works to train its AI."

Google and lawyers for the publishers did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

In this specific case, the publishers are claiming that Google...

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