Publishers and novelist Scott Turow are suing Google over books used to train Gemini. Three publishers, novelist Scott Turow, and his company S.C.R.I.B.E. have filed a proposed class action lawsuit accusing Google of copying millions of books and journal articles to train Gemini, including works provided through Google Books, Play Books, and Scholar. On July 10, Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, Elsevier, Turow, and S.C.R.I.B.E. joined together in a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, with the Association of American Publishers announcing it on the same day. The complaint says the works were supplied for search and sales, not for AI training. The lawsuit also claims that Google copied works it obtained from web scrapes, including from pirate sites and paywalled libraries. The complaint brings four counts: three allege unauthorized reproduction under the Copyright Act, covering Google Books and other Google services, web scraping downloads, and copying during training; the fourth alleges Google removed copyright management information in violation of the DMCA. The plaintiffs are asking for damages, an injunction, a detailed account of the works Gemini used for training, and court orders to delete any unauthorized copies. The filing quotes internal Google documents, one of which called using books from Google Play Books for AI as “highly problematic for Google,” with potential fines from “$10Bs-$100Bs.” Google hasn’t commented on the complaint as