Digital Rights Groups Urge Court to Reverse AI Copyright Ruling

A district court ruling that Ross Intelligence Inc. infringed Thomson Reuters’ copyrights with its AI legal tool should be reversed because it would “expand private control over the law,” a group of digital rights organizations told the Third Circuit.

Ross’ use of Thomson Reuters Enterprise Center GmbH’s headnotes for its legal AI tool should’ve been considered a non-infringing fair use under copyright law, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and other groups wrote in a friend-of-the-court brief filed Sept. 26 in the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. The American Library Association, Association of Research Libraries, Internet Archive, Public Knowledge, ...