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AI and Fair Use: Navigating Legal Challenges in India and the United States

IIPRD

One such legal issues is what is referred to as “fair use,” which becomes particularly problematic in the context of the copyright law. Thus, fundamental questions arise, such as whether such copying amounts to infringement under copyright law or whether it falls under the purview of fair use.

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AI Training, Fair Use, and the Burdens of Being First

Copyright Lately

Ross Intelligence will get plenty of second looks from courts deciding fair use in generative AI copyright cases. Those were some of the phrases legal commentators used to describe Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts v. Goldsmith in the days following the Supreme Courts 2023 landmark fair use decision.

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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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What Is Accidental Copyright Infringement. 2024 Update

Traverse Legal Blog

Misinterpreting Licenses: Incorrectly assuming permission to use copyrighted material. Fair Use Misconception: Believing that a particular use falls under fair use guidelines. Preventing Accidental Infringement: Respect Copyright: Avoid copying others’ work without permission.

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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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Let’s Go Hazy: Making Sense of Fair Use After Warhol

Copyright Lately

Five things to know about the Supreme Court’s new purpose-driven fair use opinion in Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith (“ Warhol “) is that relatively rare fair use case in which both the original and follow-on works were more or less directly competing in the same market. Andy Warhol Foundation v.