In AI Training Case Brought by Thomson Reuters, Court Denies Summary Judgment -

In Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence, a district court largely denied the parties’ cross motions for summary judgment and held that a number of factual issues must be decided by a jury.

- The decision provides some insight into how courts might address the complex issue of whether the use of copyrighted works to train artificial intelligence systems constitutes copyright infringement and, if so, the viability of a fair use defense.

- Filed in 2020, long before the recent spate of similar cases, Thomson Reuters is likely to be the first to go to trial on a critical legal issue in the development of AI systems.