wire / 2026-07-13-b24c
Google Sued by Publishers for Using Copyrighted Works to Train Gemini AI
Another training-data lawsuit, this one with Scott Turow attached. The industry position remains that reading millions of books is fair use as long as a GPU does it.
The facts
Major publishers and author Scott Turow have filed a lawsuit in New York against Google, alleging it used millions of copyrighted books and articles without permission to train its Gemini AI model. The plaintiffs claim this unauthorized use constitutes copyright infringement and that Gemini-generated content competes with original authors.