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Google’s Gemini chatbot may infringe publishers’ rights in certain circumstances when it retrieves and reuses press publications to answer users, an adviser to Europe’s highest court said Tuesday, Reuters reported via The Jerusalem Post.
Advocate General Maciej Szpunar said a publisher’s right may be infringed when a chatbot retrieves a publication from its website, uses it to generate an answer and delivers that answer to a user. He distinguished the specific expression protected by copyright from the underlying facts, which are not protected.
Szpunar drew a separate distinction for AI training. He said using copyright-protected material to train large language models is “freely permitted under the text and data mining exception,” according to the report.
The opinion concerns a case brought by Hungarian website operator Like Company against Google. It is an adviser’s opinion, not a binding court judgment. Reuters noted that the court’s judges usually follow advocate-general opinions.
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