The Syndicat national de l'édition (SNE) and the Alliance de la presse d'information générale have filed a lawsuit in Paris against four major French internet service providers—Bouygues Telecom, Free, Orange, and SFR—seeking to block the website Bookys. The platform, which has been active since at least 2021, is accused of offering thousands of articles, books, and other content for free download without the permission of the copyright holders. The SNE said it sent a warning to the companies in June 2025, which went unanswered, leading to the current legal action. This is not the first time such measures have been taken; in 2022, Z-Library was blocked, and in 2025, Japscan and Newsday.fr were also targeted by the SNE and the Alliance, respectively. The two organizations are also discussing with the Arcom, the French audiovisual regulatory authority, the possibility of blocking mirror sites to prevent Bookys from reappearing after a shutdown. Bookys claims it does not host any files directly and instead uses third-party services like 1fichier, Filescdn, Nitroflare, Uploaded, and Zippyshare to store content. The site says it is not responsible for how users might misuse the platform. However, courts in the past have generally supported the claims of rights holders. For instance, in 2022, the SNE, along with 12 publishing houses, successfully blocked 209 domains associated with Z-Library through internet service providers. A court decision in 2024 added 98 more domains to the list. The Arcom can act quickly to block mirror sites without a new court order, but the SNE wants this authority expanded to include professional organizations, not just individuals. The legal fight against unauthorized content sharing is part of a larger global trend. In India, in July 2026, police worked with Penguin Random House India and Simon & Schuster India to shut down two locations in Delhi suspected of hosting pirated books. In Germany, authors Marc-Uwe Kling and Astrid Henn are suing OpenAI over alleged copyright violations related to their children’s book series Das NEINhorn. In Brazil, the ABDR (Brazilian Association of Book Distributors) reported a rise in links to pirated books, though it may be due to better detection rather than more piracy. According to the MUSO 2025 report, global online piracy decreased, but the publishing industry is an exception. France ranks 10th globally for pirated editorial content, mostly due to manga. Other legal actions are ongoing in various countries. A U.S. court approved a $1.5 billion settlement between Anthropic and rights holders over pirated books from LibGen and Pirate Library Mirror. In Canada, the Writers' Union is pushing for consent clauses when publishers use AI on submitted manuscripts. In the U.S., authors and publishers are suing Meta and Mark Zuckerberg for using pirated books to train the Llama AI model. In the UK, publishers are negotiating licenses to regulate AI, while Spotify and major record labels are seeking over $322 million from Anna’s Archive after it failed to defend itself in court. The legal landscape is also changing regarding AI-generated content. In the U.S., a Senate bill aims to make it easier for rights holders to take legal action against opaque AI systems by simplifying the process of proving copyright infringement. In Germany, Penguin Random House accused OpenAI of copyright violations over the illustrations in Der kleine Drachen Kokosnuss. In China, self-published works now make up 61% of the digital book market. In Russia, some publishers are adding notices to their books stating that the content cannot be used to train AI models, though enforcing this remains difficult.