US appeals court rules ROSS copying Westlaw headnotes not fair use

The Third Circuit affirmed that ROSS Intelligence's copying of Westlaw headnotes to train a competing legal-research platform was not fair use, and that the headnotes are copyrightable. The panel stressed the case involved no generative AI, limiting its relevance to pending AI copyright suits.

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