This accounting would identify copyrighted books and works used in Gemini’s training, and describe how Google collected, copied, processed, and encoded such materials. The plaintiffs also request court-supervised destruction of unauthorized copies under Google’s control. Previously, Hachette and Cengage sought to join separate AI-related litigation against Google in California. The current New York case expands the list to include Elsevier, Turow, and S.C.R.I.B.E., while pursuing claims related to Google services, web scraping, and Gemini’s training process.
Publishers challenge Google’s Gemini training practices in a New York federal copyright case.
