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Copyright Lawsuit Against Google's Gemini AI

News Summary: Publishers Seek to Join Copyright Lawsuit against Google’s Gemini AI

AI lawsuits are in the news again. And it's not Anthropic this week, but the large ongoing lawsuit against Google's Gemini. It takes the form of a motion to intervene, as I believe it's called (you can read the motion in question here to fill yourselves in). The motion is brought by two major publishing groups, Cengage and Hachette. It requests, as I understand it, that the two publishing groups join the case brought by writers and illustrators in 2023 and currently before the Northern California judiciary, intervening as class representatives.
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Alliance Of Independent Authors | Self-Publishing News July 31, 2025 | With Dan Holloway

News Summary: U.S. Senate Hearing Tackles AI’s Use of Copyrighted Works

I have reported on what seems like a weekly basis on legal cases around AI and copyright, but this week I want to report on a hearing held in the legislative branch of the U.S. government. Before doing so, being an ignorant Brit, I undertook some brief research on what exactly the status of Senate hearings is—so if nothing else, this has increased my knowledge of how government works across the world (note for U.K. readers: I think it’s a bit like a Select Committee).
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