Thomson Reuters is an information-services company whose legal research platform is Westlaw. Recent coverage centered on the ROSS Intelligence case: the US Third Circuit upheld a ruling that ROSS's copying of Westlaw headnotes to train a competing legal-research platform was not fair use, and that the headnotes are copyrightable, while noting the case involved no generative AI.
US appeals court rules ROSS copying Westlaw headnotes not fair useThe 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.
Court Rules Copyrighted Material as AI Training Data Is Not Fair UseThe US Third Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a ruling that Ross Intelligence violated copyright law by training its legal search engine on Thomson Reuters' Westlaw materials. This first-of-its-kind decision could weaken AI companies' fair use defense, as OpenAI and others face numerous similar lawsuits.
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