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US appeals court: copying to train a rival AI tool is not fair use

Claims Journal (Reuters)· 30 Sep

The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit upheld Thomson Reuters' win against Ross Intelligence, which copied Westlaw headnotes, short summaries of court rulings, to train a competing AI legal research tool. The earlier judge found the use was not transformative. It is the first US appeals ruling on copyright and AI training, though it concerns a search tool, not generative AI.

  • If you build an AI tool on someone else's content, get a licence in writing, especially if your product competes with theirs.
  • Check the terms of any AI vendor you use for copyright indemnity, and whether it covers small customers.

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