AI Policy & Regulation
Gemini May Infringe Publishers’ Rights, EU Adviser Says
A non-binding opinion says chatbot responses could breach copyright in specific circumstances; the EU court has yet to rule.
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An adviser to the Court of Justice of the European Union says Google’s Gemini chatbot could infringe press publishers’ rights in some circumstances, including if it accesses articles by bypassing paywalls or reproduces their expression recognizably. [1]
Advocate General Maciej Szpunar issued the opinion in a case brought by Hungarian website operator Like Company against Google. He said copyright protects the specific expression of an article, not the facts it reports. [1]
The opinion is non-binding and does not decide the case; the court’s judges will rule later. Szpunar also said using copyrighted material to train large language models is permitted under the text-and-data-mining exception, according to the report. [1]
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