--- title: Google Gemini lawsuit: publishers sue over AI training description: Major book publishers including Hachette, Cengage, and Elsevier, along with author Scott Turow, have sued Google in the US District Court for the Southern... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/google-gemini-lawsuit-publishers-sue-over-ai-training-blhnampdr twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Google Gemini lawsuit: publishers sue over AI training | daily.dev og:description: Major book publishers including Hachette, Cengage, and Elsevier, along with author Scott Turow, have sued Google in the US District Court for the Southern... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/google-gemini-lawsuit-publishers-sue-over-ai-training-blhnampdr og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/BLhNAmpdR.png og:image:alt: Google Gemini lawsuit: publishers sue over AI training 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 Gemini lawsuit: publishers sue over AI training **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Major book publishers including Hachette, Cengage, and Elsevier, along with author Scott Turow, have sued Google in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. The lawsuit alleges Google used millions of copyrighted books to train its Gemini AI without permission, calling it one of the most prolific copyright infringements in history. The complaint claims Google repurposed works obtained through scope-limited programs like Google Books and Google Scholar, and also scraped content from pirate sources and paywalled sites. An internal Google document cited in the filing reportedly warned the practice could expose the company to tens to hundreds of billions in fines. Plaintiffs seek statutory damages, a permanent injunction, and destruction of unauthorized training copies. The case is part of a broader wave of copyright litigation against AI companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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