Legal experts said there are key differences in Thomson Reuters' case against Ross Intelligence and other major AI-related copyright litigation.

A federal judge in Delaware on Tuesday said that a former competitor of Thomson Reuters was not permitted by U.S. copyright law to copy the information and technology company's content to build a competing artificial intelligence-based legal platform.

The Thomson Reuters decision has big implications for the battle between generative AI companies and rights holders.

A judge looked at possible copyright infringement defenses for Ross Intelligence and said, ‘I reject them all.’

And yet, the cautious approach to AI that persists at the top of some law firms shows that managing partners who still worry about moving too early are overlooking the significant

Thomson Reuters has won an early battle in court over the question of fair use in artificial intelligence-related copyright cases.

An AI company lifted material from Thomson Reuters' research platform, arguing fair use and innocent infringement. A court has ruled it was copyright violation.

"The ruling is, in many respects, fairly narrow, but it does provide guidance as to how to analyze some of these issues in these cases going forward," Mammen said.

A US judge has ruled in favor of Thomson Reuters in a AI training fight against Ross Intelligence, a legal AI startup, according to The Verge. Thomson Reuters sued Ross Intelligence in 2020 for using the company’s legal research platform Westlaw to train Ross Intelligence’s AI without permission.

The ruling, which reserved a 2023 order denying Thomson Reuters a summary judgement, found that ROSS’ use of Westlaw data did not meet the fair use doctrine. The case, however, will still go to trial.

Copyright claims against AI companies just got a potential boost. A U.S. federal judge last week handed down a summary judgment in a case brought by tech

After reconsidering the case, the judge issued a partial summary judgement, which asks whether a non-generative AI system’s content counts as original work.