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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

Perkins Coie

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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New Battle of the Bots: ChatGPT 4.5 Challenges Reigning Champ ChatGPT 4o

Two AI heavyweights step into the ring: ChatGPT 4o, the reigning champion of fluency and speed, and the new challenger, ChatGPT 4.5, boasting an upgraded intellect and sharper wit. But which one is truly the best? To find...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

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

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

AI Training Using Copyrighted Works Ruled Not Fair Use

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

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Breaking New Ground: Evaluating the Top AI Reasoning Models of 2025

The year 2025 has brought us closer than ever to the dawn of artificial general intelligence, with AI systems now capable of reasoning on par with humans—or even surpassing them in specific domains. In this article, I examine...more

Mayer Brown

ROSS AI Decision Gives Early Indication of Strengths and Weaknesses of Fair Use Defense

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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

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

Carlton Fields

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

Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

Fair Use in AI Copyright Litigation: A Surprising Turn in Thomson Reuters v. Ross

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

Husch Blackwell LLP

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

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

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Court Definitively Rejects Fair Use Defense in AI Training Case

In one of the most closely-watched copyright cases this year, a Delaware court rejected defendant, ROSS Intelligence’s (“ROSS”), fair use and other defenses by vacating its previous stance and granting summary judgement in...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

The First U.S. AI Copyright “Fair Use” Ruling Favors Copyright Owners

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Yesterday, in the first U.S. ruling on the closely scrutinized question of fair use in the AI-related copyright litigation context, U.S. Circuit Judge Stephanos Bilbas, sitting in the U.S. District Court for the District of...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

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The Year In AI: 2024 Roundup and Forward-Looking Guidance From the Benesch AI Commission

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It was a busy year for AI in 2024, and the Benesch AI Commission continued to follow the headlines and stay on top of legal developments. We wanted to take a look back at the year while also looking forward with some...more

Pillsbury - Global Sourcing Practice

An Early Primer on Contracting for Agentic AI Procurement

A recent code leak indicated that OpenAI is set to release its first true AI Agent. An AI agent is a system designed to perceive its environment, process information, and autonomously take actions to achieve specific goals....more

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How AI Can Help Resolve Disputes Related to Technology

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1 In an era where technology is advancing at an unprecedented pace, disputes related to technology are becoming increasingly common. Traditional methods of dispute resolution often struggle to keep up with the complexities...more

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

AI Intellectual Property Year in Review - Analysis & Trends - 1st Edition

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping industries, including the legal profession, with a significant impact on patent law. In 2024, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the courts continued to address emerging...more

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Dario Amodei’s Essay on AI, ‘Machines of Loving Grace,’ Is Like a Breath of Fresh Air

While almost everyone is panicking about a potential robot apocalypse, Dario Amodei, the CEO and co-founder of Anthropic (“Claude”), is explaining how AI might compress 100 years of medical progress into a decade, cure mental...more

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Balancing Technology and Tradition: AI in the Legal Sector

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The adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in the legal sector is changing how law firms manage efficiency, client services, and overall operations. With new advancements in AI, legal professionals are navigating an...more

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ABA Addresses Lawyer Generative AI Use: Key Takeaways from ABA's Latest Ethics Opinion

The American Bar Association (“ABA”) recently issued Formal Opinion 512, providing essential guidance for lawyers and law firms using Generative AI (“GAI”) tools. As we have written about previously, when lawyers employ GAI...more

McAfee & Taft

Digital due diligence: Ensuring legal accuracy in a tech-driven world

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In an era where legal research is increasingly facilitated by advanced tools, both traditional and cutting-edge, the reliability of the information these tools provide and the attorney’s fundamental role in vetting this...more

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