Hachette and Cengage File to Join Google Copyright Lawsuit Over AI Training
Hachette and Cengage Group filed a motion to join a lawsuit against Google. They allege the company used copyrighted books to train the Gemini AI model.
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Hachette Book Group and Cengage Group filed a motion on January 15, 2026, to intervene in an existing class action lawsuit against Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. Class A and Alphabet Inc. Class C . The publishers filed the request in a California federal court in the US
US, alleging that the tech giant engaged in large-scale copyright infringement by copying content from their books and textbooks without permission to train its Gemini artificial intelligence model.












