{"id":1020996,"date":"2026-07-15T08:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T02:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1020996"},"modified":"2026-07-15T08:40:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T03:10:29","slug":"publishers-accuse-google-of-stealing-copyrighted-content-in-new-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/15\/publishers-accuse-google-of-stealing-copyrighted-content-in-new-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Publishers accuse Google of stealing copyrighted content in new lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington: Multiple book publishers sued Google on Tuesday for allegedly stealing copyrighted content, using it to train artificial intelligence (AI) models and then generating content that &#8220;directly&#8221; competes with the original authors&#8217; work. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The scale and speed at which Gemini can create books and compete with human writers is unprecedented,&#8221; the lawsuit says. <\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit, which requests class action status, was filed in New York by Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, Elsevier, author Scott Turow and his publishing company S.C.R.I.B.E.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington: Multiple book publishers sued Google on Tuesday for allegedly stealing copyrighted content, using it to train artificial intelligence (AI) models and then generating content that &#8220;directly&#8221; competes with the original authors&#8217; work. &#8220;The scale and speed at which Gemini can create books and compete with human writers is unprecedented,&#8221; the lawsuit says. The lawsuit, which requests class action status, was filed in New York by Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, Elsevier, author Scott Turow and his publishing company S.C.R.I.B.E.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021019,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020996\/revisions\/1021019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}