EU court adviser (AG Szpunar)
An AI chatbot like Gemini can infringe press publishers’ rights when it reuses news in answers
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- Medium confidence
- Importance
- 3 of 5
- Last verified
- 5 November 2026
Your AI and this story
- GPT-6 Astra187 days after its cutoff
- Claude Opus 5.5126 days after its cutoff
- Gemini 4 Argon217 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.7156 days after its cutoff
None of these four assistants can know about it. The closest, Claude Opus 5.5, stops 126 days before it.
Key facts
- First EU top-court opinion on generative AI and copyright; the Court’s judgment, usually months later, is not bound by it
- Case referred by the Budapest Környéki Törvényszék in April 2025; Grand Chamber hearing 10 March 2026
- Factors named (Anadolu): unlawful access (e.g. paywall bypass), reproduction of expression vs facts, users no longer needing the original, systematic reproduction, liability if inherent in the business model or without effective preventive measures
- The referral also asks whether training Gemini on the articles infringes; coverage we read did not report the AG’s view on training
- Reuters framed it as a setback for Google
What happened
Written from Reuters’ headline and Anadolu’s report; we have not read the opinion on curia.europa.eu. Earlier (lead of Oct 13) the opinion had been expected on Sept 3; it was delivered on Nov 3.
Why it matters
If the Court follows it, AI answer engines in the EU would need licences or safeguards for news reuse, the same week the NYT sued Brave and Anthropic signed its first news licence (AP).
Sources
2 sources from 2 sites. Numbers match the chips in the text.
2 sources: 2 press
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