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For people who think their work may have been used by Google products such as Gemini. Find others, see what is known, and learn what you can do on your own.
What to do next
Pick the kind of work you make to see the matching guide. These categories filter content only; they never produce a separate count.
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- Writing / Books
- Art / Illustration
- Photography
- Music
- Film / Video
- Code
- Voice / Likeness
- Other / Not sure
Guides: what you can do on your own
- The material list: what the E numbers mean
- Record templates: ten blank notes you can copy
- SOP01 | Preserving the original work: writing, books, illustration, photographs
- SOP02 | Preserve what is in front of you first
- SOP03 | Save the full input, output and related conversation
- SOP04 | Build a comparison between the work and the output
- SOP05 | Produce fingerprints, record the process and back it up safely
- SOP06 | Organise existing publication, licence and rights records
- Code: what you can keep
- Film and video: what you can keep
- Music: what you can keep
- Not sure which category: start here
- Photography: what you can keep
- Illustration and visual art: what you can keep
- Voice and likeness: what you can keep
- Writing: what you can keep
Also available in another language (16)
- 材料清单:E 编号是什么意思 (Chinese)
- 记录底稿:11 份可以照抄的空白表 (Chinese)
- SOP01|保留原作品:文字、书、绘画、照片 (Chinese)
- SOP02|先保住眼前的现场 (Chinese)
- SOP03|保存完整输入、输出和相关会话 (Chinese)
- SOP04|制作原作与输出对照 (Chinese)
- SOP05|生成指纹、记保存过程并安全备份 (Chinese)
- SOP06|整理既有发表、授权和权利记录 (Chinese)
- 代码:你可以先保存什么 (Chinese)
- 影视:你可以先保存什么 (Chinese)
- 音乐:你可以先保存什么 (Chinese)
- 还不确定属于哪一类:从这里开始 (Chinese)
- 摄影:你可以先保存什么 (Chinese)
- 插画与美术:你可以先保存什么 (Chinese)
- 声音与形象:你可以先保存什么 (Chinese)
- 写作:你可以先保存什么 (Chinese)
What the rules say, country by country
Other people are asking the same questions you are. These pages set out what the rules actually say where you live, with the source for each one. Background, not legal advice.
- Canada: what the rules say
- China (mainland): what the rules say
- Spain: what the rules say
- European Union: what the rules say
- India: what the rules say
- Mexico: what the rules say
- United States: what the rules say
- 加拿大:规则概览 (Chinese)
- 中国内地:规则概览 (Chinese)
- 西班牙:规则概览 (Chinese)
- 欧盟:规则概览 (Chinese)
- 印度:规则概览 (Chinese)
- 墨西哥:规则概览 (Chinese)
- 美国:规则概览 (Chinese)
Cases and updates
- EU court adviser says AI training is generally lawful under the text-and-data-mining exception — if developers avoid pirate sources, respect opt-outs and curb memorisation
- Mobilguru asks EU top court whether Gemini training and answers infringe press publishers' rights
- Publishers and author Scott Turow sue Google over books used to train Gemini
- Alphabet shareholder sues Pichai and 12 directors over alleged unlawful AI training, including Lyria music models
- EU court adviser says AI chatbot answers reusing press articles may infringe publishers' rights in some cases
- Google and Anthropic join Japan's AI transparency code but won't answer individual training-data inquiries
- Judge lets former NPR host David Greene's AI-voice suit against Google proceed past dismissal challenge
- Five French publisher groups lodge EC complaint over Google AI Overviews and AI Mode in France
- OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic back shared robots.txt AI-training opt-out signal
- Google, Microsoft, Meta and Anthropic harden AI-copyright risk language in October SEC filings
- Illinois journalists, podcasters and voice actors sue nine tech companies over alleged use of their voices to train AI
- Google wins dismissal of most CIPA claims over AI-recorded customer-service calls used to train Contact Center AI
- CNN strikes multiyear AI content deal with Google for expanded use of its journalism in AI products
- OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Google race to buy workplace records as AI training fuel; consent dispute grows
- Music publishers warn Australia against weakening copyright for AI training; Anthropic and OpenAI dispute licensing premise
- Google DeepMind's music-AI licensing/opt-out posture stated on the record
- Google quietly settles Munich AI-Overviews publisher case; second German court applies the same liability reasoning
- YouTube Music rolls out AI-generated-song labels
- Six authors file individual copyright suits against Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, xAI and Perplexity
- YouTube Music rolls out AI-generated music labels
- CNN signs multi-year AI partnership with Google; publisher licensing pilot hits 400+ outlets
- Google faces privacy class action over Gemini access to Gmail, Chat and Meet
- Reach becomes latest publisher to join Google's news AI pilot programme
- UK privacy watchdog secures AI company commitments on how personal data is used to train AI models
- Google faces third EU copyright referral over Gemini training in Hungarian publisher's case
- Spirit Airlines bankruptcy estate proposes selling employee emails and messages to Google for AI training; 121 lawmakers and unions object ahead of Oct 14 hearing
- US judge dismisses Chegg and Penske Media antitrust suits over Google AI Overviews' use of publisher content
- Poland's antitrust watchdog charges Google over publisher payment negotiations
- US judge dismisses Chegg and Penske antitrust suits over AI Overviews' use of publisher content
- Judge Mehta dismisses Chegg and Penske Media antitrust suits over Google AI Overviews
- Judge Mehta dismisses publisher antitrust lawsuits against Google AI Overviews
- Google quietly scales a pay-per-value pilot that pays publishers when their content contributes to AI answers
- Court narrows the consolidated Google AI training case: claims over Gemini, Imagen, PaLM, LaMDA, Bard and GLaM proceed
- Publishers and author Scott Turow sue Google, alleging books were copied to train Gemini
- Google's AI contribution pilot pays publishers token sums for content shaping AI Overviews and Gemini
- US judge dismisses Penske Media and Chegg antitrust suits over Google AI Overviews
- Judge Mehta dismisses Chegg and Penske Media antitrust suits over Google AI Overviews
- UK firm Barings Law rallies 15,000 claimants against Google and Microsoft over data allegedly used to train AI
- Google's pay-per-value AI licensing pilot pays publishers widely varying amounts, with participants unsure how payments are calculated
- Judge dismisses Penske Media and Chegg antitrust suits over Google AI Overviews
- Google ties AI-training rights to publisher revenue in News Showcase replacement
- Voice creators file BIPA suits against Apple, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and others over AI voice-training data
- Google argues YouTube's terms of service already permit AI training on uploaded music in Lyria 3 lawsuit
- Google pilot paying ~100 publishers for content driving AI Overview answers, per The Information report
- John Carreyrou and five writers sue Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta, xAI, and Perplexity over pirated books in AI training
- Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier, and Scott Turow sue Google over alleged use of books in Gemini training
- Google documents Google-Extended token to opt out of Gemini training
- Google announces expanded Reddit partnership including AI model training access
Related reading (not about Google)
- Australia rules out AI 'text and data mining' copyright exception, sides with creators — Frontier-model trainer whose AI-training scraping practices are the target of Australia's rejected TDM exception; decision affects it as a developer of models trained on copyrighted works. No company named as defendant; linked as reference to the policy decision.
- Korean publishers survey suspected AI bulk book-buying and demand compensation framework — Frontier-model trainer whose book-training practices are the target of the Korean publishers' survey and compensation appeal. Linked as reference to the industry ask; not accused of the bulk orders.
- Authors Guild organizes global statement opposing Australia's planned AI-training copyright exception — Frontier-model trainer whose AI-training practices are the target of the Authors Guild's opposition to Australia's planned training exception. No company named as defendant; linked as reference.
- UK stealth-bot bill heads to second reading with publisher and Reddit backing — Frontier-model trainer whose bot-scraping practices are the target of the UK stealth-bot bill's operator-disclosure requirement. No named defendant; linked as reference to the policy measure.
- Tentative ruling keeps ex-NPR host David Greene's AI voice-appropriation suit against Google alive — Defendant in the AI voice-appropriation suit; the tentative ruling overrules Google demurrer claims on all four counts, keeping the case alive.
- Australian authors and publishers demand AI licensing law at parliamentary hearing — Frontier-model trainer whose AI-training practices are the target of the ASA/APA demands for mandatory disclosure, permission and payment. No company named as defendant; linked as reference to the policy ask.
- 63 media groups warn Australian lawmakers against AI-training opt-out copyright change — AI training of frontier models like Google's would shift to an opt-out default under the opposed proposal.
- Music body warns Australia against weakening copyright for AI training; cites uncompensated use of Australian songs — ICMP told the committee it had evidence Google's Gemini can reproduce lyrics by Australian artists.
- Bombay High Court grants interim relief restraining AI voice cloning of singer Asha Bhosle — Bombay High Court ordered Google LLC only to remove the identified YouTube URLs hosting AI-generated songs using Bhosle's cloned voice; Google is not the direct subject of the AI-use dispute (that is Mayk Inc's voice-cloning platform).
- AI Lawsuit Tracker counts 248 cases against 76 companies; copyright dominates — Named among the most-sued companies in the tracker (25 cases).
- Anthropic says new safeguards cut AI model-distillation attacks by 90–99% — Named as one of the leading labs that share Anthropic's concern about distillation letting rivals copy model capabilities.
- EFF guide: how to opt out of AI training on ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Copilot and other major platforms — Guide covers Gemini training opt-out plus Gemini/smart-feature controls across Android, Chrome, Gmail and Workspace.
- Reddit's AI scraping case against Perplexity and SerpApi moves into discovery as judge signals Oxylabs dismissal bid is unlikely to succeed — Not a defendant. Google's SearchGuard technological protection is one of the measures the defendants allegedly circumvented, and Reddit's licensing agreement with Google is a subject of the discovery the court allowed to proceed.
- Publisher coalition SPUR releases content telemetry standard to track how AI tools use publishers' content, invites major AI companies onto licensing advisory board — Named by SPUR/Digiday as one of five AI companies invited to join SPUR's AI Licensing Advisory Board; a Google spokesperson said it frequently engages with SPUR and other associations, without confirming acceptance. Not a party to the standard's release itself.
- European Commission opens consultation on copyright and AI, asking whether rules on protected content in AI need strengthening — Major general-purpose AI provider placing models on the EU market; the consultation seeks input from generative AI providers and reviews the copyright framework governing their use of protected content. No single company is the subject.
- Judge lets three of Reddit's claims against Anthropic proceed and dismisses two — Google licensed Reddit data for training; named only for contrast, the dispute is not against Google
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