Book publishers sue Google for copyright infringement over Gemini AI training: theguardian.com/books/2026/jul…

'A group of major publishers have filed a lawsuit against Google, accusing the company of illegally using millions of copyrighted books to help build its Gemini artificial intelligence models, in “one of the most prolific infringements of copyrighted materials in history”.

The case, filed in federal court in New York, has been brought by three publishers – Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, and Elsevier – and bestselling American author Scott Turow.'

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Book publishers sue Google for copyright infringement over Gemini AI training

Group of major publishers accuses the tech giant of ‘one of the most prolific infringements of copyrighted materials in history’

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Some fantastic news: we just won our election and officially unionized over at Hachette Book Group! 🎉

This makes ours the biggest trade union in book publishing in the US.

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Hachette Book Group Employees Win Union Election

With around 600 members, the Hachette Workers Coalition, organized with NewsGuild-CWA, is the largest union in trade publishing history, and will soon commence the collective bargaining process.

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