Book Publishers Seek Entry Into Google AI Copyright Fight

Hachette and Cengage allege Google bypassed licensing to train Gemini, calling it “historic copyright infringement.” ...
Publishers Weekly

Publishers Seek to Join Class Action Against Google

Two members of the Association of American Publishers, Cengage and Hachette Book Group, have asked a court to allow them to join an ongoing class action lawsuit first brought by illustrators and ...
Search Engine Roundtable

Google Publisher Center Changes: Automatically Generated Publication Pages

Google is making more changes to the Google Publisher Center, in March Google News will fully transition to automatically generated publication pages. This comes after Google stopped accepting ...
Search Engine Land

Google News automated publication pages to start in March

Google will soon fully transition to automatically generated publication pages next month, in March. Back in April 2024, Google told us Publisher Center will soon stop allowing you to add publications ...
TechCrunch

Google’s AI search features are killing traffic to publishers

Google’s AI Overviews and other AI-powered tools, including chatbots, are devastating traffic for news publishers, per a Wall Street Journal report. Now that people can simply ask a chatbot for ...
InfoWorld

Update: Google settles copyright lawsuits with publishers, authors

Wide-ranging agreement calls for Google to pay $125 million and in exchange gives the search giant rights to display chunks of in-copyright books, not just snippets Google has settled lawsuits brought ...