Google's use of press by AI chatbot may infringe copyright rules, EU court adviser says
Source: The Star
Published on: 2026-11-03 09:29
BRUSSELS, Nov 3 (Reuters) - An adviser to Europe's highest court said on Tuesday that the use of press publications by Google's artificial intelligence chatbot Gemini may in certain circumstances infringe copyright rules. "When an LLM-driven chatbot retrieves a publication from a press publisher's website, reuses that publication to generate an answer, and provides that answer to the user, the press publisher's right may be infringed in certain circumstances," Advocate General Maciej Szpunar said. Copyright rules do not protect the "mere facts" reported by press publications, but "only the specific form of expression", he added. On the other hand, he said the use of material protected by copyright to train large language models is "freely permitted under the text and data mining exception." Szpunar was advising the court in a case brought by Hungarian website operator Like ...
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