Who's who in AIAI glossary
Authors Guild
The oldest and largest organisation of professional writers in the United States. Already opposed to Google back in 2005 over book digitisation, it is now leading the major lawsuits against OpenAI and other labs accused of training their models on copyrighted works.
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Among its members at war with OpenAI is George R.R. Martin, the author of Game of Thrones.
Alyriaz articles that mention it
- Twenty years on, the same author is still taking on Google over the same books.
In mid-July 2026, Hachette, Elsevier, Cengage and the writer Scott Turow sued Google in a New York court, accusing the group of having trained Gemini on millions of copyrighted works. Turow had already led the battle against Google Books twenty years ago, and had lost it. Here's why the legal question is different this time.