European Court adviser warns: Gemini may infringe copyright if it bypasses paywalls or reuses content
The Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union recently formally issued an opinion in the case brought by a Hungarian website operator against Google, clarifying the copyright boundaries for AI processing of news content. The opinion states that Google's AI chatbot Gemini may, under certain circumstances, violate copyright rules when using news reports: if it illegally bypasses paywalls to obtain content, or in its answers reuses the specific expression of news reports in an identifiable manner, it may infringe publishers' reproduction rights.