A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday upheld a ruling for information services company Thomson Reuters in its copyright dispute with former legal-research rival Ross Intelligence, reports Blake Brittain of Reuters.
Brittain reports, “The Philadelphia-based 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Ross’ argument that its search engine made fair use of material from Thomson Reuters’ Westlaw platform, a first-of-its-kind ruling by a U.S. appeals court in a wave of high-stakes copyright cases over AI training.
“The appeals court’s reasoning for its decision is currently sealed.
“Thomson Reuters is the parent company of Reuters News.
“Thomson Reuters’ 2020 lawsuit accused legal research company Ross Intelligence of copying Westlaw’s ‘headnotes,’ which summarize points of law in court opinions. It accused Ross of misusing thousands of headnotes to train its competing AI-based legal search engine.
“Ross shut down its platform in 2021, citing the costs of Thomson Reuters’ litigation.”
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