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

Thomson Reuters has won an early victory against AI start-up Ross Intelligence for its use of copyrighted data to train its own AI models.

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.

A U.S. District Court has ruled in favour of Thomson Reuters in its copyright infringement lawsuit against Ross Intelligence, a legal AI startup. The decision, issued on Tuesday by Judge Stephanos Bibas of the Delaware District Court,

As Wired notes, the judgment blows a hole in the AI industry’s fair use defense. The industry has used fair use (the same parody laws that birthed “ Dumb Starbucks “) to claim that what they do, e.g.,