Thomson Reuters Will Head to Trial in AI Model Copyright Battle

Sept. 26, 2023, 10:23 PM UTC

Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH will go to trial next year against the legal tech startup Ross Intelligence Inc. in a case examining whether copyright law can limit artificial intelligence models from consuming copyrighted data without permission.

Reuters, which hosts and publishes the popular legal research platform Westlaw, failed to convince a federal judge in Delaware that Ross had infringed its copyrights by hiring another company to copy Westlaw “headnotes” and Key Number System to be fed into a machine learning model.

Judge Stephanos Bibas on Monday also declined to rule in favor of Ross, finding that only a jury ...

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