Third Circuit Rejects Fair Use for AI Trained on Westlaw Headnotes

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit recently issued the first federal appellate decision addressing whether copying copyrighted material to train an artificial intelligence system is fair use. In Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH v. ROSS Intelligence Inc., the court answered no, at least on these facts. Writing for a unanimous panel (Restrepo, Montgomery-Reeves, and Bove, JJ.), Judge Montgomery-Reeves affirmed Judge Stephanos Bibas’s grant of partial summary judgment to Thomson…
By: Baker Donelson