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The publishing industry tag brings together coverage of legal and technology issues affecting publishers, authors, and educational content providers. Current tagged reporting focuses on the lawsuit Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, Elsevier, novelist Scott Turow, and S.C.R.I.B.E. filed against Google over alleged copying of copyrighted books and journal articles to train Gemini AI models. The case highlights questions about permission, copyright, unauthorized training copies, statutory damages, injunctions, and the destruction of allegedly infringing material. This page is a focused place to follow developments where the publishing industry intersects with artificial intelligence, book and journal rights, and emerging disputes over how protected content is used in model training.
  1. WindowsForum AI

    Google Gemini Sued Over Book Training in Hachette Case

    Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, Elsevier, novelist Scott Turow and his company S.C.R.I.B.E. have sued Google, alleging that millions of copyrighted books and journal articles were copied without permission to train its Gemini AI models. The proposed class action seeks statutory damages...