Publishers sue Google, alleging Gemini trained on millions of books without permission
Major publishers Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier and author Scott Turow filed a federal class‑action claim that Google copied copyrighted books supplied to Google Books, Play Books and Scholar to train its Gemini AI model. They say the unlicensed training could undercut authors, costing billions in lost sales and exposing Google to massive fines.