Five Publishers and Scott Turow Sue Meta and Mark Zuckerberg

Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier, Cengage — and novelist Scott Turow have filed a class-action copyright infringement lawsuit against Meta and Mark Zuckerberg for illegally using millions of copyrighted works to train their artificial intelligence program Llama

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/books/publishers-turow-meta-zuckerberg-lawsuit-copyright.html

Google Uses Cox Ruling to Kill Last Copyright Claim in Textbook Piracy Lawsuit

https://torrentfreak.com/google-uses-cox-ruling-to-kill-last-copyright-claim-in-textbook-piracy-lawsuit/

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Cengage: Gale Launches Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Part III, Expanding Access to Rare and Previously Undigitized Materials. “Gale, part of global edtech company Cengage, today announced the launch of Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Part III (ECCO III), the latest installment of its acclaimed ECCO series. The third collection adds 1.7 million never-before-digitized pages to the […]

News Summary: Publishers Defend Bid to Join Google AI Lawsuit; AI-Generated Romance Novels Spark Debate

A roundup of AI news to end the week brings a story that has already whipped up a storm and a story that might well do so. But first, a development in the Gemini legal case I reported on recently. You will recall that publishers have sought to join authors in a copyright case against Google's Gemini.
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Google Says SCOTUS Decision in Cox vs. Sony Will Impact Publishers’ Lawsuit

https://torrentfreak.com/google-says-scotus-decision-in-cox-vs-sony-will-impact-publishers-lawsuit-250712/

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Google Wins Copyright Claim Dismissal in Publishers’ Textbook Piracy Lawsuit

https://torrentfreak.com/google-wins-copyright-claim-dismissal-in-publishers-textbook-piracy-lawsuit-250608/

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Google Asks Court to Gut “Kitchen Sink” Lawsuit Claiming it Profits From Piracy

https://torrentfreak.com/google-asks-court-to-gut-kitchen-sink-lawsuit-claiming-it-profits-from-piracy-240829/

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Google “Profits From Pirated Textbooks” Publishers’ Lawsuit Claims

https://torrentfreak.com/google-profits-from-pirated-textbooks-publishers-lawsuit-claims-240610-240610/

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