Publishers Move to Join Copyright Lawsuit Over Google’s Gemini AI Product – Publishing Perspectives

“This case will address a fundamental question of the AI era: what responsibility do AI companies have to copyright owners whose works they’ve stolen to build their trillion-dollar businesses?”

By Andrew Richard Albanese, Editor-in-Chief

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.

“This case will address a fundamental question of the AI era: what responsibility do AI companies have to copyright owners whose works they’ve stolen to build their…