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Hachette Book Group Inc v Google LLC

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Case Information
Case name Hachette Book Group Inc v. Google LLC[1]
Court U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York[1]
Docket 1:26-cv-05870[1]
Filed July 10, 2026[1]
Judge(s) Loretta A. Preska[2]
Plaintiffs Hachette Book Group, Inc.; Cengage Learning, Inc.; Elsevier Inc.; Scott Turow; S.C.R.I.B.E., Inc.[1]
Defendants Google LLC[1]
Case type Proposed civil class action[1]
Claims / issues Copyright infringement and DMCA § 1202(b) CMI claims involving Google Books, web scraping and Gemini training[1]
Status Complaint filed July 10, 2026; public docket reviewed through September 3, 2026. Later developments have not been verified.[2]

Hachette Book Group, Inc. v. Google LLC is a copyright infringement lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on July 10, 2026, with docket number 1:26-cv-05870.[3] The plaintiffs listed in the docket are Hachette Book Group, Inc., Elsevier Inc., Cengage Learning, Inc., S.C.R.I.B.E., Inc., and author Scott Turow, and the defendant is Google LLC.[3] The complaint was reported as alleging that Google used copyrighted books and articles without permission to build Gemini artificial-intelligence models.[4]


Complaint filed July 10, 2026; public docket reviewed through September 3, 2026. Later developments have not been verified.[2]

Allegations

The plaintiffs allege that Google used millions of copyrighted books and articles without permission to train Gemini artificial-intelligence models.[4] The docket identifies the case as a federal copyright infringement action.[3]

Procedural Status

The case was filed on July 10, 2026, and assigned to Judge Loretta A. Preska in the Southern District of New York.[3] CourtListener lists summons-related filings on July 10, 2026, following the complaint.[3]

Significance

The suit adds major educational and publishing plaintiffs to the wave of copyright litigation challenging the use of copyrighted works in generative-AI training.[4] It is notable because the named plaintiffs include large publishers and an individual author suing Google over Gemini training practices.[4]

See Also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Court filing / case record, reviewed September 7, 2026
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Case source, reviewed September 7, 2026
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 CourtListener docket for Hachette Book Group, Inc. v. Google LLC, No. 1:26-cv-05870 (S.D.N.Y.)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 A.J. Katz, TheWrap, "Hachette, Scott Turow Sue Google for Using Books to Train AI" (July 14, 2026)
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