{
  "id": 18036102,
  "title": "EU Court Advisor Warns Google AI Chatbot May Breach Copyright Rules",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/03/eu-court-advisor-warns-google-ai-chatbot-may-breach-copyright-rules",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-11-03T23:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Slashdot",
    "slug": "slashdot",
    "url": "https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/11/03/2144244/eu-court-advisor-warns-google-ai-chatbot-may-breach-copyright-rules"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "A top adviser to the European Union's highest court has expressed concerns that Google's AI chatbot, Gemini, may infringe upon the copyright of publishers. The case, brought by a Hungarian website operator, Like Company, against Google's AI, is currently under consideration by the Luxembourg-based Court of Justice of the European Union. At issue is whether Gemini's use of copyrighted material to generate responses violates publishers' rights.\n\nAccording to Advocate General Maciej Szpunar, Gemini may infringe upon publishers' rights when it reproduces recognizable portions of their articles or bypasses paywalls and technical barriers to access the content. The right of reproduction may be infringed in such circumstances, he said. However, copyright rules do not protect the mere facts reported by press publications; only the specific form of expression is protected.\n\nSzpunar also noted that the use of copyrighted material to train LLMs (large language models) is permitted under the text and data mining exception. He stated that there is no evidence that Google had utilized the Hungarian publisher's articles to train Gemini. The court will likely make its decision in the coming months, weighing the interests of publishers and Google's dominant position in online search.",
  "summary": "An adviser to the EU's highest court says Google's Gemini may violate publishers' copyright when it reproduces recognizable portions of their articles or circumvents paywalls and other technical protections to generate answers. Reuters reports: The case before the Luxembourg-based Court of Justice of the European Union pitted Hungarian website operator Like Company against US-based Google's…",
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      {
        "outlet": "CNA - Business",
        "title": "Setback for Google as EU court adviser warns AI chatbot may breach copyright rules",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/03/setback-for-google-as-eu-court-adviser-warns-ai-chatbot-may-breach",
        "published": "2026-11-03T09:20:59.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Daily Maverick",
        "title": "Setback for Google as EU court adviser warns AI chatbot may breach copyright rules",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/03/setback-for-google-as-eu-court-adviser-warns-ai-chatbot-may-breach-18015407",
        "published": "2026-11-03T20:32:51.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}