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Search Engine Journal · Jul 17

Publishers file class action over books used to train Gemini

A proposed class action alleges Google trained Gemini on copyrighted books without authorization, joining an unusually crowded month of AI-training litigation, per Search Engine Journal.

Via Search Engine Journal ↗

Posted to the wire July 20, 2026.