New Lawsuit Alleges Google Used Copyrighted Publisher Content Without Permission
WASHINGTON — Multiple book publishers filed a lawsuit against Google on Tuesday, accusing the company of copying copyrighted works to train its Gemini model and generating content that competes with original authors.
The lawsuit, filed in New York by Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, Elsevier, author Scott Turow, and his publishing company S.C.R.I.B.E., seeks class action status and requests an injunction along with unspecified damages.
“Google secretly copied millions of works” provided for limited purposes through Google Books and other services, the lawsuit alleges. It claims Gemini competes directly with human writers, with the model “tailoring outputs to mimic the expressive elements and creative choices of specific authors.”
The case follows similar copyright infringement lawsuits against other technology companies. In May, the same publishers sued Meta in a New York court. A judge approved a $1.5 billion settlement between Anthropic and authors in September, while Meta won a partial victory last year when a judge ruled its use of copyrighted materials constituted fair use.
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