Major publishers and authors have filed a class action lawsuit against Google, alleging its Gemini AI platform was trained on copyrighted works without permission.
The lawsuit was filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York
Jul 15, 2026
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What's the storyA consortium of leading publishers, including Hachette, Cengage, and Elsevier, has sued tech giant Google.
They allege that the company used their copyrighted material without permission to train its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Gemini.
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