Google Wins Partial Victory in AI Training Copyright Lawsuit

Google LLC was granted its motion to dismiss for multiple claims in a closely watched copyright dispute over the company’s use of creative works to train its AI models, while a federal judge allowed certain infringement allegations to proceed.

Claims related to 10 AI models, not including its flagship Gemini model, were dismissed in a ruling that said plaintiffs failed to provide claims connecting their copyrighted content to these bots. Judge Eumi K. Lee of the US District Court for the Northern District of California also dismissed all claims against Google’s parent Alphabet Inc., rejecting arguments that the parent should ...