Three Publishers Challenge Google Over AI Copyright Infringement
It’s the latest in a barrage of efforts to win compensation from AI companies over training materials.
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A trio of publishers and one author are seeking a class action lawsuit against Google on claims that the tech company broke copyright law by using their works to train its Gemini AI. Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning and Elsevier are the plaintiff companies and writer Scott Turow is the individual behind this effort.
"Google reproduced millions of copyrighted works without permission, without providing any compensation to authors or publishers, and with full knowledge that its conduct violated copyright law," the complaint alleges. "Google also stripped CMI from the copyrighted works it stole to conceal its training sources and facilitate their unauthorized use."
In addition to the alleged copyright infringement for training, the complaint argues that Gemini allows and sometimes even encourages the creation of copycat works, again...
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