A federal judge in Delaware on Tuesday said that a former competitor of Thomson Reuters was not permitted by U.S. copyright law to copy the information and technology company's content to build a competing artificial intelligence-based legal platform.

A judge looked at possible copyright infringement defenses for Ross Intelligence and said, ‘I reject them all.’

An AI company lifted material from Thomson Reuters' research platform, arguing fair use and innocent infringement. A court has ruled it was copyright violation.

As Wired notes, the judgment blows a hole in the AI industry’s fair use defense. The industry has used fair use (the same parody laws that birthed “ Dumb Starbucks “) to claim that what they do, e.g.,

And yet, the cautious approach to AI that persists at the top of some law firms shows that managing partners who still worry about moving too early are overlooking the significant

Thomson Reuters has won an early victory against AI start-up Ross Intelligence for its use of copyrighted data to train its own AI models.

A U.S. District Court has ruled in favour of Thomson Reuters in its copyright infringement lawsuit against Ross Intelligence, a legal AI startup. The decision, issued on Tuesday by Judge Stephanos Bibas of the Delaware District Court,

A judge ruled Ross Intelligence copied Westlaw data without permission, in a blow to AI developer's fair use claims.