Thomson Reuters Will Head to Trial in AI Model Copyright Battle

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 ...