Intellectual Property
May 23, 2025
Authors must share emails in Google AI lawsuit, judge orders
A federal judge ordered authors to provide email addresses to Google to verify licensing agreements in a copyright lawsuit over AI models powering Chrome, Gmail and other products.
A group of authors and illustrators must turn over their email addresses to Google LLC to assess which terms of service they agreed to and when, a federal judge ordered Thursday in a putative copyright infringement class action over the company's AI models powering Google Chrome, Gmail and other products.
Google's attorneys argue that it has unique licensing rights and that at least two of the plaintiffs granted the company the right to use their works.
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