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A court just ruled that training an AI on someone else's editorial work isn't fair use

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What just happened? The Third Circuit has ruled that Ross Intelligence infringed Thomson Reuters' copyrights by using Westlaw headnotes to train a legal research system designed to compete with Westlaw. The decision gives a federal appeals court's perspective on a question that has become central to the AI industry: when does training a system on copyrighted material qualify as protected fair use, and when does it amount to unauthorized copying for a competing product?

Ross developed an AI-based legal research platform that allowed lawyers to submit legal questions and receive relevant passages from court opinions. To train the system, the company worked with a third party, LegalEase Solutions, to create training materials that connected legal questions with passages from judicial opinions.

The material included Westlaw headnotes. Headnotes are brief summaries written by Westlaw...

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