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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.

• All
• 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
• Photography: what you can keep

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

• UK privacy watchdog secures AI company commitments on how personal data is used to train AI models
• Court narrows the consolidated Google AI training case: claims over Gemini, Imagen, PaLM, LaMDA, Bard and GLaM proceed
• Google documents Google-Extended token to opt out of Gemini training

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.
• 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.
• 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.

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