Thomson Reuters Wins 1st Major AI Copyright Case in US

Thomson Reuters wins AI copyright 'fair use' ruling against one-time competitor
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.
Using copyrighted content to train AI without permission is not ‘fair use’, US court rules in precedent-setting Thomson Reuters case
HOW ‘FAIR USE’ WORKS. The fair use doctrine exists to safeguard freedom of expression and to create an environment that encourages learning and innovation. To that end, in man
Thomson Reuters wins an early court battle over AI, copyright, and fair use
A judge looked at possible copyright infringement defenses for Ross Intelligence and said, ‘I reject them all.’
First AI copyright ‘fair use’ ruling is won by Thomson Reuters
A judge ruled that a former competitor of Thomson Reuters was not permitted to copy its content to build an AI-based legal platform.
Thomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the US
The Thomson Reuters decision has big implications for the battle between generative AI companies and rights holders.
Thomson Reuters Secures Major Win in AI Copyright Battle
The judge rules that replicating human-authored content without permission does not qualify as 'fair use' of AI under copyright law.
Thomson Reuters wins ‘fair use’ AI copyright ruling
Thomson Reuters has won a major copyright victory as a judge ruled that a competitor using its work to train an AI tool was not fair use.
Thomson Reuters scores early win in AI copyright battles in the US
Thomson Reuters has won an early battle in court over the question of fair use in artificial intelligence-related copyright cases.
Thomson Reuters lands copyright win against AI company. What’s next?
An AI company lifted material from Thomson Reuters' research platform, arguing fair use and innocent infringement. A court has ruled it was copyright violation.
Thomson Reuters' AI copyright win blows a hole in AI industry’s fair use defense
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.,
Federal judge delivers first major AI copyright ruling against startup
The case, filed in 2020, accused Ross Intelligence of reproducing materials from Thomson Reuters' Westlaw legal research ...
AI Fair-Use Ruling Lays First Marker as OpenAI, Meta Cases Loom
AI companies and the copyright owners suing them in dozens of cases across the country got their first glimpse into how judges will weigh fair use arguments Tuesday in a Delaware court’s opinion ...
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Court: Training AI Model Based on Copyrighted Data Is Not Fair Use as a Matter of Law
In what may turn out to be an influential decision, Judge Stephanos Bibas ruled as a matter of law in Thompson Reuters v.