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How to Handle Internal Investigations: Different Tactics for Different Triggers

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Internal investigations often start small. A complaint, a suspicious transaction, or a red flag in a routine audit. Most companies try to manage these issues internally, without specialized tools or external legal support....more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Injunctive Relief Is Not Yet a Viable Remedy for Copyright Infringement Claims Involving GenAI

Since a February 11, 2025 decision by Judge Stephanos Bibas finding in favor of Plaintiff Thomson Reuters on copyright infringement during the model training process in Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH et al. v. ROSS...more

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D.C. Circuit Holds that Works Created Solely by AI are Not Copyrightable

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On March 18, 2025, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the D.C. District Court’s and U.S. Copyright Office’s decisions, holding that a copyrighted work cannot be authored exclusively by an AI system. Computer...more

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Copyright Office Solidifies Stance on the Copyrightability of AI-Generated Works

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Earlier this year, the U.S. Copyright Office released part two of its artificial intelligence (AI) report addressing the copyrightability of outputs created using generative AI. This new report is largely consistent with the...more

Maynard Nexsen

Tool or Inventor? – Inventorship Pitfalls When Using AI in R&D

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Generative AI is a subset of artificial intelligence that enables machines to generate content, such as words, images, voice, and even synthetic data. While Generative AI is relatively new technology, its origins from...more

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Commercial Litigation Outlook - 2025

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Last year’s Commercial Litigation Outlook was dominated by the promise and peril that AI poses to myriad industries. No doubt, the evolution of AI in the last year has been significant, and it is still a material...more

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Competitive AI Use May Raise IP Issues

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As more and more companies employ artificial intelligence (“AI”) in their business activities, novel legal questions continue to arise. Of particular note is the application of existing principles of intellectual property...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

Fair Use Doctrine Falters in Groundbreaking AI Copyright Decision

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

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

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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

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Delaware Court Delivers First Copyright Verdict on AI Training

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

Greenberg Glusker LLP

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

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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

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Federal Court Sides with Plaintiff in the First Major AI Copyright Decision of 2025

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AI copyright jurisprudence is set to have a big year in 2025. On February 11, 2025, a Delaware federal court issued the first major decision concerning the use of copyrighted material to train AI. The case is Thomson Reuters...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Fair Use Falls Short: Judge Bibas Rejects AI Training Data Defense in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS

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

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Use of Copyrighted Works in AI Training Is Not Fair Use: Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH v. Ross Intelligence Inc.

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With the Trump administration’s push to establish America’s global dominance in artificial intelligence (AI), thorny questions of intellectual property rights and fair use are likely to be litigated with greater frequency....more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Ruling Against Fair Use Defense for AI Training Seems To Be Narrow, but Is It?

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

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence: Copyright, Fair Use, and AI (Round One)

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

Ballard Spahr LLP

Court Issues First Decision on AI and Fair Use

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Recently, a federal court issued the first ruling on the closely watched issue of fair use in copyright infringement involving AI. The court ruled in favor of the plaintiff on its direct infringement claim, and ruled that the...more

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Delaware Court Grants Summary Judgment to Plaintiff in Machine Learning / AI Copyright Case

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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

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Federal Court Rules Against ‘Fair Use’ Defense for AI Training

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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

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Court Reverses Itself in AI Training Data Case

In an unexpected development, the judge in Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence — a case concerning the use of copyrighted material to train an artificial intelligence (AI) model — reversed much of his 2023 decision denying...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

Fair-Use Whiplash: Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence Revisits Fair Use for Artificial Intelligence

On Tuesday, February 11, a Delaware district court issued much-awaited summary-judgment decisions in Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH et al v. ROSS Intelligence Inc., No. 1:20-cv-613, potentially shaping how future...more

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Court Rejects Fair Use Defense in AI Copyright Case

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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

Troutman Pepper Locke

Copyright Office Advises on Copyrightability of Generative AI Works

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On January 29, the U.S. Copyright Office published the second part of a planned three-part report on copyright and artificial intelligence (AI), this time focused on the question of copyrightability for AI-generated creative...more

Wiley Rein LLP

Generative AI in Focus: Copyright Office's Latest Report

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On January 29, 2025, the U.S. Copyright Office released its highly anticipated report (the Report) regarding the copyrightability of works created using generative artificial intelligence (AI). The Report concluded that...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

AI News Roundup – U.S. Copyright Office declares generative AI outputs uncopyrightable, U.K. move to open up works for AI training...

To help you stay on top of the latest news, our AI practice group has compiled a roundup of the developments we are following....more

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