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Given that litigation in the United States can take years from start to finish, we rarely see a conclusion to the cases we follow. In a prior blog post, we looked at the potential recusal requirements of the U.S. Supreme...more
We previously reported on the groundbreaking AI Fair Use ruling in the Thomson Reuters Ross Intelligence case, where the court found that based on the facts of this case fair use was not a defense. Ross Intelligence moved,...more
A US court (in Delaware) recently handed down a precedent-setting ruling on a lawsuit filed by a copyright-owner, the media and technology conglomerate, Thomson Reuters, against the artificial intelligence platform, Ross...more
As has been widely reported, including in our year-end summary of the current state of artificial intelligence (“AI”)-related copyright litigation, AI providers are currently facing a wave of lawsuits1 from copyright owners...more
As several dozen copyright infringement cases against artificial intelligence (AI) developers continue to proceed through the federal courts, a recent ruling in the District of Delaware suggests that the fair-use defense...more
Technology often outpaces the law, but a new copyright infringement decision in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware shows that the courts are starting to catch up in regulating artificial intelligence (AI),...more
Just two months in, 2025 is already delivering significant developments in AI and technology law. In this episode, host Julian Dibbell is joined by Rich Assmus, a partner in our Intellectual Property practice, to discuss...more
In the first substantive decision regarding whether use of copyrighted works to train an artificial intelligence (“AI”) tool constitutes fair use under copyright law, the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware in...more
The legal battles surrounding generative AI and copyright continue to escalate with prominent players in the Indian music industry now seeking to join an existing lawsuit against OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT. On February...more
The U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware delivered a watershed ruling in Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence on February 11, 2025, providing clarity on an often-asked question: is the utilization of copyrighted...more
On February 11, 2025, Third Circuit visiting Judge Stephanos Bibas, sitting by designation on the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, granted summary judgment that Ross Intelligence directly infringed Thomson...more
On February 11, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware became the first to rule on whether the use of copyrighted materials to train an AI system qualifies as copyright infringement. In Thomson-Reuters...more
Judge Bibas’s second take in Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence will get plenty of second looks from courts deciding fair use in generative AI copyright cases. “Highly fact-specific.” “Narrowly decided.” A case with...more
On February 11, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware granted Summary Judgment in favor of Thomson Reuters in Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH v. Ross Intelligence Inc. holding that the use of...more
On Tuesday, a Delaware federal district court granted partial summary judgment to Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH (“Thomson Reuters”) in its copyright litigation against ROSS Intelligence (“ROSS”). The lawsuit, which...more
A Delaware federal district court made headlines this week by issuing the first court decision rejecting fair use as a defense in training artificial intelligence (AI) models with copyrighted content. In Thomson Reuters...more
Fair use — a critical defense in copyright law that allows limited use of copyrighted material without permission — has emerged as a key battleground in the wave of artificial intelligence (AI) copyright litigation. In a...more
From the pages of The New York Times to the…general counsel’s office of The New York Times, AI copyright litigation is all the rage. Possible questions include the philosophical—e.g. “Could an AI agent hold a copyright?”—but...more
In rejecting an AI company's fair use defense for using Thomson Reuters' Westlaw headnotes to train its competing legal tool, Judge Bilas, the District of Delaware judge in Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GMBH and West...more
Earlier this week, a federal judge rejected an AI startup's claim that using copyrighted material to train its AI system was permissible under the fair use doctrine. The decision—Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH v. Ross...more
Albert Einstein is credited with saying “the measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” In September 2023, Judge Stephanos Bibas—sitting by designation in the District of Delaware—denied plaintiff Thomson Reuters’...more
On Tuesday, February 11, the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware held in Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH et al. v. ROSS Intelligence Inc. that the defendant’s unauthorized use of the plaintiff’s...more
A federal district court in Delaware has issued the first AI copyright fair use decision on the merits, granting partial summary judgment for copyright owner Thomson Reuters on copyright infringement and rejecting defendant...more
Thomson Reuters v. ROSS, 1:20-cv-00613-SB, is the first district court case to address fair use and copyright infringement related to training AI models. Judge Bibas granted summary judgment of no fair use upon a balancing of...more
The first 24 hours of punditry on Judge Stephanos Bibas’s summary judgment of no fair use in Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence, Inc., Case 1:20-cv-00613-SB (D. Del.), has largely oscillated between predictions that the...more