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ROSS Intelligence files Reply in appeal of Thomson Reuters’ copyright suit in Third Circuit
Read more: ROSS Intelligence files Reply in appeal of Thomson Reuters’ copyright suit in Third CircuitA lot happening right before the holidays. ROSS Intelligence just filed its Reply in support of its interlocutory appeal of Judge Bibas’s grant of summary judgment on: (1) copyrightability of Westlaw headnotes and (2) no fair use in AI training by ROSS using some Westlaw headnotes in legal memos. Excerpt: DOWNLOAD ROSS’S REPLY FOR ALL…
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Thomson Reuters files its appellee brief in ROSS Intelligence case 2 days before deadline (albeit after an extension)
Read more: Thomson Reuters files its appellee brief in ROSS Intelligence case 2 days before deadline (albeit after an extension)Exciting news: Thomson Reuters filed its Brief of Appellees today, 2 days before the (extended) deadline on Nov. 21. This is the interlocutory appeal in Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence before the Third Circuit. I don’t recall ever seeing a brief filed early. But this one does come following a 30 day extension. Excerpts from…
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Status of all 57 copyright lawsuits v. AI (Oct. 26, 2025): Apple hit with 3 lawsuits.
Read more: Status of all 57 copyright lawsuits v. AI (Oct. 26, 2025): Apple hit with 3 lawsuits.The U.S. copyright lawsuits against AI companies continue unabated. Here are the Top 5 news items: 1. Apple joins the copyright party. Although Apple has been roundly criticized for its slow development of Apple Intelligence, that hasn’t stopped book authors from suing Apple for copyright infringement in proposed class actions. In addition to the earlier…
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Status of all 51 copyright lawsuits v. AI (Oct. 8, 2025): no more decisions on fair use in 2025.
Read more: Status of all 51 copyright lawsuits v. AI (Oct. 8, 2025): no more decisions on fair use in 2025.It’s been a hot minute since our last status report. Right now, we are in the doldrums of discovery. We do not expect any other summary judgment decisions on fair use in AI training until summer 2026 at the earliest. So far, 3 judges ruled on fair use, 2 for and 1 against. But their…
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The Fair Use Triangle: state of fair use in AI training 2025. No more decisions until mid to late 2026.
Read more: The Fair Use Triangle: state of fair use in AI training 2025. No more decisions until mid to late 2026.Now we know that we won’t have any new decisions on fair use in AI training from other district court judges until mid-2026 at the earliest, let’s take stock of where things stand. 3 Decisions on Fair Use in AI Training: 2 decisions for fair use and 1 against It’s fair (no pun intended) to…
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More amici briefs for ROSS Intelligence. Foundation for American Innovation. Abraham Kang & Kunal Patel.
Read more: More amici briefs for ROSS Intelligence. Foundation for American Innovation. Abraham Kang & Kunal Patel.ROSS Intelligence received a couple more late amici brief filings. One by the Foundation for American Innovation. The other by Abraham Kang and Kunal Patel. DOWNLOAD AMICUS BRIEF OF FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN INNOVATION DOWNLOAD AMICI BRIEF FOR ABRAHAM KANG & KUNAL PATEL
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Brief of Amici Curiae Randy Goebel and Larry Ullman dispute “non-generative” AI distinction in ROSS decision
Read more: Brief of Amici Curiae Randy Goebel and Larry Ullman dispute “non-generative” AI distinction in ROSS decisionThe Brief of Amici Curiae Randy Goebel and Larry Ullman disagree with Judge Bibas’s distinction of “non-generative” AI.
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Just filed: Brief of Copyright Law Professors as Amici Curiae in Support of Appellant ROSS Intelligence
Read more: Just filed: Brief of Copyright Law Professors as Amici Curiae in Support of Appellant ROSS IntelligenceThe Brief of Copyright Law Professors in Support of Appellant ROSS Intelligence was filed today. I was happy to be a part of it. We argue that ROSS Intelligence’s use of a select number of headnotes to train its model that produces no infringing outputs (in fact, just quotes from uncopyrightable judicial opinions) was a…
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Follow the briefing in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence. 1st appeal of fair use decision.
Read more: Follow the briefing in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence. 1st appeal of fair use decision.We created a dedicated page to track all the briefing before the Third Circuit in the Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence case. Just click here or on the image below: *Full disclosure: I participated in one of the amici briefs filed on behalf of Copyright Law Professors in Support of ROSS Intelligence. Related Stories
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Three judges made fair use rulings re: AI training. They appear torn.
Read more: Three judges made fair use rulings re: AI training. They appear torn.With this week’s blockbuster rulings in Bartz v. Anthropic and Kadrey v. Meta, we now have decisions by three federal judges on the question whether the use of copyrighted works to train AI models that do not produce allegedly infringing outputs when deployed is a fair use. This is a novel question of law, so…