--- title: Google faces another AI training lawsuit from major... description: A group of major publishers and authors including Hachette, Cengage, and Elsevier have filed a class action lawsuit against Google, alleging the company used... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/google-faces-another-ai-training-lawsuit-from-major-publishers-tpjox82kc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Google faces another AI training lawsuit from major publishers | daily.dev og:description: A group of major publishers and authors including Hachette, Cengage, and Elsevier have filed a class action lawsuit against Google, alleging the company used... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/google-faces-another-ai-training-lawsuit-from-major-publishers-tpjox82kc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/TPjOx82KC.png og:image:alt: Google faces another AI training lawsuit from major publishers og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Google faces another AI training lawsuit from major publishers **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A group of major publishers and authors including Hachette, Cengage, and Elsevier have filed a class action lawsuit against Google, alleging the company used their copyrighted works to train its Gemini AI without permission. The plaintiffs also claim Google intentionally removed copyright information to conceal that Gemini was trained on unauthorized materials. The suit highlights Google's prior relationship with publishers through Google Books and Google Play, arguing that access granted for search purposes was never authorization for AI training. This is part of a broader wave of copyright litigation against AI companies. While California courts have recently ruled in favor of Meta and Anthropic on fair use grounds, Anthropic was still fined $1.5 billion for piracy. The Google case is filed in the Southern District of New York, giving a different court the chance to weigh in. An internal Google document allegedly acknowledged that using copyrighted books for AI training could result in tens to hundreds of billions in fines. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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