Judge Allows Early Appeal of Westlaw AI Fair-Use Decision (3)

A federal judge granted Ross Intelligence Inc.'s request to pause its dispute with Thomson Reuters and allow it to appeal a recent order finding its AI-powered legal tool’s ingestion of Westlaw headnotes isn’t “fair use” under copyright law.

The first summary judgment ruling rejecting a fair use defense in an AI-training copyright suit is ripe for immediate appeal to the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Judge Stephanos Bibas said in a docket entry Friday in the US District Court for the District of Delaware. He issued an order postponing a jury trial on the remaining claims that ...