The most recent and significant AI copyright ruling out of federal court could have a sprawling impact on how companies, both big and small, use the technology responsibly, according to two experts.
Last week, federal appellate Judge Stephanos Bibas, sitting by designation in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, found that tech startup ROSS Intelligence infringed on 2,443 headnotes in Thomson Reuters’ proprietary legal database, Westlaw. The Feb. 11 opinion stated that ROSS’s use of the copyrighted content, obtained through LegalEase Solutions, was commercial, not transformative, and could not constitute fair use.
