Publishers to Join Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Against Google’s Gemini AI

The Association of American Publishers (AAP) this week announced that two of its member publishers—Cengage Group and Hachette Book Group—have filed a motion to intervene as class representatives for publishers in a copyright infringement lawsuit that accuses Google of using unauthorized copies to train its Gemini AI service.

The case, In Re Google Generative AI Copyright Litigation, was first filed in 2023 by a group of illustrators and writers, and is currently before Judge Eumi K. Lee in the Northern District of California.

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