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AI Training Copyright Infringement and Fair Use: Thomson Reuters v Ross

Barry Sookman

11, 2025) examined three essential questions, 1) were the Westlaw headnotes and key number system taxonomy protected by copyright, 2) did Rosss copying of the headnotes to create legal memos used to train Rosss AI system infringe copyright, subject to the defense of fair use, and 3) was Ross copying fair use.…

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Copying Westlaw Headnotes to Train AI Legal Search Competitor Is Not Fair Use, Per District of Delaware

JD Supra Law

On February 11, 2025, Third Circuit visiting Judge Stephanos Bibas, sitting by designation on the U.S.

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Authors Put a Spotlight on Meta’s BitTorrent Leeching Activity

TorrentFreak

Meta admitted the use of these unofficial sources early on. At the same time, however, the company denied the copyright infringement allegations, noting that it would rely on a fair use defense, at least in part. Meta could argue that the use of the pirated books as AI training data qualifies as fair use.

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Copyright Owners Are Still Suing Over Embedding

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

2025 WL 89191 (S.D.N.Y. 14, 2025) This cases involves two videos, one involving Michael Jordan that someone posted to Twitter (seemingly without permission?), ” Amount taken: “Townsquare copied the entire Jordan video. .” ” Amount taken: “Townsquare copied the entire Jordan video.

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Call for Submissions: 1st Blog Writing Competition, 2025 Organized by CIPRA in Collaboration with SpicyIP (Submit by February 19, 2025)

SpicyIP

Analysing the impact of Indian copyright law on fair use in academic and critical writing. Evaluating the doctrine of fair use for Indian social media platforms in light of global cases. In the event that a cited material does not have an online copy or reference, only endnotes must be used.

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From Headnotes to Head-scratchers: The Functional Fallacies in Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence

SpicyIP

The Court has granted summary judgment in respect of 2,830 headnotes belonging to Thomson Reuters and admittedly used by Ross Intelligence to train its Natural Language Processing and Artificial Enabled Legal Research tool, finding Direct Copyright Infringement and rejecting fair use. But, first, Some History!

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The 5 Worst Copyright Decisions of 2024

Copyright Lately

In a January 2024 report and recommendation later adopted by the court , the magistrate judge found that the repost infringed the plaintiff’s display right simply because it shows a copy of the photo on Chicken Joes social media account. Fair Use Declawed. For that reason, Prepared Food Photos v. Netflix, Inc.

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