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Cases › copyright or IP violation › LR-2026-0837

Gemini chatbot summary of Hungarian news article alleged to infringe press publishers' right (Like Company v Google, C-250/25)

Preliminary Why: Publisher not yet named · subject to change

Status: no action reported

Severity minor
Reported 3 Nov 2026
Developer and model Google · Gemini
Agent tool Gemini chatbot
Could do retrieval, web search, internet bots
Industry publishing

No source states: loss or records, deployer.

Severity minor: A single publisher's copyrighted content is alleged to have been reproduced, a bounded scope stated, with no loss figure given.

Like Company Kft., a Hungarian operator of advertising-funded news portals, sued Google before the Budapest Regional Court, alleging that Bard and then Gemini infringed its press publishers' right between 13 June 2023 and 31 May 2024. Its example: a user asked Gemini to summarise a balatonkornyeke.hu article about a singer's plan to bring dolphins to Lake Balaton, and the answer described a pool of specific dimensions and public criticism that the source did not contain, which Google called hallucinations of the LLM. The Hungarian court referred questions to the Court of Justice. On 3 November 2026 Advocate General Szpunar advised that retrieval-based chatbot answers can infringe where access circumvents a paywall or bot block, or where the answer recognisably substitutes for the article, but that Like Company's own example probably does not meet that test.

What happened

No source tells the story step by step yet.

What was done

No source states an action or fix.

Risks

Copyright and IP
Primary11 incidents

Sorted by rule from the case's fields; not yet read from the sources.

Controls

Not yet read for controls. Controls that mitigate the primary risk:

Model

Copyright safeguards · Marking machine-made output

Application

Output filtering and redaction

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Evidence

No source states: a step-by-step account, when it happened, when it was found, how many records were exposed, the direct loss, a count of the other parties affected, the cause, what set it off, what was done.

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The AI system

Model
Gemini
C one secondary source states it
Developer
Google
C one secondary source states it
Software around the model
Gemini chatbot
C one secondary source states it
Tools it was given
retrieval, web search, internet bots
C one secondary source states it
Safeguards in place
output filters
C one secondary source states it
Stage of use
in live use
C one secondary source states it
Whose system
company that built the AI
C one secondary source states it
How it was connected
answering from documents
C one secondary source states it
What it was for
answering user questions about news by retrieving and summarising online press publications
C one secondary source states it

What happened

Earliest source we hold
2026-11-03
C one secondary source states it
Themes
chatbot, rag, hallucination, press publishers right, copyright retrieval, news publisher
C one secondary source states it
Who was responsible
the model provider
C one secondary source states it
What went wrong
copyright or IP violation
C one secondary source states it
AI agent
an AI agent acted
C one secondary source states it

Impact

Severity
minor
C one secondary source states it
Kind of harm
intellectual property
C one secondary source states it
Who was affected
Like Company Kft., operator of balatonkornyeke.hu and other advertising-funded web portals
C one secondary source states it
Why this severity
A single publisher's copyrighted content is alleged to have been reproduced, a bounded scope stated, with no loss figure given.
C one secondary source states it

Context

Industry
publishing
C one secondary source states it
Country
Hungary
C one secondary source states it
Rules that apply
EU Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive (2019/790) Article 15 press publishers' right
C one secondary source states it
Legal action
a case filed
C one secondary source states it

Notes on gaps

The article reports third-party traffic studies (39.8% click decline; Web Search share falling from 51.10% to 27.42%) but these are not tied to this incident and are not entered. The document also mentions unrelated matters (GEMA v OpenAI, GEMA v Suno, CNN v Perplexity, Wikimedia's filing, the Commission's antitrust probe, the DSA designation of ChatGPT) which are referenced as context or precedent, not described as incidents in this document, and are not extracted. Extractor proposed values without quotes; dropped: . The claim that Google used articles for training is Like Company's allegation, not an established finding. Extractor proposed values without quotes; dropped: .

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