Ross Urges 3rd Cir. to Reverse First AI Training Fair Use Ruling

Ross Intelligence Inc. told the Third Circuit a federal judge incorporated critical errors into an analysis of its use of the legal tool Westlaw to train its AI and wrongly concluded it wasn’t fair use under copyright law.

The decision—which was the first to dissect fair use and AI training materials—wrongly found Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH’s Westlaw legal summaries protectable, Ross told the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in its opening brief filed Monday. Ross’ use of the headnotes was “spectacularly transformative,” the brief said, warning the win by West Publishing Corp. and parent company ...