2025-02-12
Key to the ruling: Ross took the works of Reuters and built a directly-competing product that was not very transformative. — I doubt the same ruling will occur in, for example, the NYT v. OpenAI suit. — [Judge] Bibas...ruled that Ross “meant to compete with Westlaw by developing a market substitute.” …
Wired
Thomson Reuters wins the first major US AI copyright ruling against fair use, in a case filed in May 2020 against legal research AI startup Ross Intelligence
The Thomson Reuters decision has big implications for the battle between generative AI companies and rights holders.