Book Publishers Seek Entry Into Google AI Copyright Fight

Hachette and Cengage allege Google bypassed licensing to train Gemini, calling it “historic copyright infringement.” ...

Publishers seek to join lawsuit against Google over AI training

Publishers Hachette Book Group and Cengage Group asked a California federal court on Thursday for permission to intervene in ...

Big Tech Slammed With Class Actions in California for Allegedly Training AI Models With Stolen Data

A raft of Big Tech and artificial intelligence companies were hit with class actions last December in California federal ...
Forbes

AI Firm To Pay $1.5 Billion For Pirated Books, Keeps Its Trained Models

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tor Constantino is an ex-reporter, turned AI consultant & tech writer. Anthropic won’t have to delete a single training parameter ...
The Bookseller

Publishers ‘unite with authors’ to join Google AI copyright lawsuit

Hachette Book Group (HBG) and Cengage have moved to intervene in a class action lawsuit against Google, first brought in 2023 ...
New York Post

Amazon-backed Anthropic wins key ruling in AI copyright lawsuit filed by authors

A federal judge in San Francisco ruled late on Monday that Anthropic’s use of books without permission to train its artificial intelligence system was legal under US copyright law. Siding with tech ...
Entrepreneur

Anthropic Proposes $1.5 Billion Settlement Over ‘Stealing’ Books, the Largest Copyright Payout Ever

The class action case was filed last year by a group of authors alleging that Anthropic had illegally downloaded their work to train AI models. Anthropic suggested paying at least $1.5 billion to ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Anthropic Settles AI Lawsuit From Authors

"This historic settlement will benefit all class members," says Justin Nelson, a lawyer for the authors, though details have yet to be released. By Winston Cho Anthropic has settled a lawsuit from ...