Google faces another AI training lawsuit from major publishers

Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier, and other publishers have filed a class action lawsuit against Google, alleging it trained Gemini on copyrighted works without permission and deliberately obscured copyright metadata. This is one of several pending suits against AI companies, though recent California courts have ruled such training falls under fair use.

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