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An adviser to the EU's top court said on Tuesday that Google's Gemini chatbot may infringe copyright when it draws on publishers' content to generate answers, treating this separately from AI training. It is the first EU court case on the issue.
Publishers and AI developers disagree over whether chatbots may reuse press content to produce answers without permission or payment. The EU's top court is now asked to clarify how European copyright rules apply to generative AI, in its first case on the question.
An adviser to the EU's top court said on Tuesday that Google's Gemini chatbot may violate copyright rules when it uses publishers' content to generate answers. The adviser distinguished this use from AI training, in the first EU court case on the issue.