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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px;display:block" width="960"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1784069850500Screen Shot 2026-07-15 at 6.49.33 AM (1).jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="960"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">A large Android logo head is displayed at Alphabets Google Android plaza booth during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada on January 5, 2023. <em>Josh Edelson/AFP/File</em></span></span></span></div><p>WASHINGTON, United States — Multiple book publishers sued Google on Tuesday for allegedly stealing copyrighted content, using it to train artificial intelligence (AI) models and then generating content that &quot;directly&quot; competes with the original authors&#x27; work.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/business/01/21/21/google-and-french-publishers-sign-agreement-over-copyright">Google and French publishers sign agreement over copyright</a></div><p>&quot;The scale and speed at which Gemini can create books and compete with human writers is unprecedented,&quot; the lawsuit says.</p><p>The lawsuit, which requests class action status, was filed in New York by Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, Elsevier, author Scott Turow and his publishing company S.C.R.I.B.E.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/business/11/18/21/google-signs-5-year-deal-to-pay-for-news-from-afp">Google signs 5-year deal to pay for news from AFP</a></div><p>They allege that &quot;Google secretly copied millions of works&quot; that were provided to Google Books and other services for &quot;limited purposes&quot; and then used that content to train Gemini, its AI model.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/technology/2026/2/5/google-s-annual-revenue-tops-400-billion-for-first-time-ai-investments-rise-0840">Google&#x27;s annual revenue tops $400B for first time, AI investments rise</a></div><p>Furthermore, they claim the content generated by Gemini directly competes with the authors who wrote the original work.</p><p>&quot;Gemini even tailors outputs to mimic the expressive elements and creative choices of specific authors,&quot; the lawsuit says.</p><p>The plaintiffs requested an injunction and an unspecified amount of damages.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/business/10/08/20/google-vs-french-media-paris-court-to-rule-on-talks">Google vs French media: Paris court to rule on talks</a></div><p>It&#x27;s the latest copyright infringement lawsuit brought against AI developers.</p><p>In May, multiple publishers -- including Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier and Turow -- sued Meta on similar grounds in a New York court.</p><p>A US judge in September approved a $1.5 billion settlement between Anthropic and several authors who claimed the San Francisco company illegally copied their work to train its AI model, Claude.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/business/05/11/23/google-answers-chatgpt-challenge-with-bard-expansion">Google answers ChatGPT challenge with Bard expansion</a></div><p>It was a partial victory for Anthropic—a judge ruled that the company&#x27;s use of books to train Claude was transformative enough to constitute &quot;fair use&quot; under US law but that other uses of pirated materials was not.</p><p>Meta also won a partial victory last year when a US judge in San Francisco ruled that its use of copyrighted materials was &quot;fair use.&quot; That case was filed by comedian Sarah Silverman, author Ta-Nehisi Coates and others.</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div><div><strong><br/></strong></div><div><strong>RELATED VIDEOS</strong></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1MVGvoxKnGU?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/R1n-YQaVK3k?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div>

<p>Multiple book publishers sued Google on Tuesday for allegedly stealing copyrighted content, using it to train artificial intelligence (AI) models and then generating content that "directly" competes with the original authors' work.</p>

Multiple book publishers sued Google on Tuesday for allegedly stealing copyrighted content, using it to train artificial intelligence (AI) models and then generating content that "directly" competes with the original authors' work.

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Publishers accuse Google of stealing copyrighted content in new lawsuit

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