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 s...