EU Advocate General Targets Google's Gemini on Copyright
Advocate General Maciej Szpunar says Google's Gemini chatbot can infringe publishers' rights when it reuses their articles in a recognisable form.
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In the case between Hungarian publisher Like Company and Google, he finds reproduction possible if paywalls are bypassed. Training models remains free under the text and data mining exception. Google said these exceptions are essential to Europe's competitiveness and AI development. The European Publishers Council asks to distinguish indexing from AI-generated answers. The opinion is not binding; the EU Court of Justice will rule in the coming months.
Source: Reuters (via Boursorama), published on November 3, 2026.