AI Tool’s Data Training Not Fair Use, Thomson Reuters Argues

Thomson Reuters Enterprise Center GmbH argued Thursday that Ross Intelligence Inc.'s unlicensed use of its copyright-protected information to train an AI-based search model isn’t “fair use” even if the company didn’t directly use the original data.

Judge Stephanos Bibas presided over a summary judgment hearing on whether Ross’ use of content from the legal database tool Westlaw, hosted and published by Thomson Reuters, was permissible under copyright law because its use was transformative and didn’t affect the market for the original content. The hearing came after Bibas abruptly canceled a jury trial in August and allowed the parties to renew ...