Ross made an AI-based, legal-research search engine that relied on materials taken from Thomson Reuters-owned Westlaw. Those materials were headnotes, which were written by Westlaw editors and ...

Thomson Reuters has won an early battle in court over the question of fair use in artificial intelligence-related copyright cases.

Thomson Reuters’ Westlaw legal research platform is used to access and search case law and other legal materials. Although judicial opinions are not subject to copyright, Westlaw also has ...

A US court (in Delaware) recently handed down a precedent-setting ruling on a lawsuit filed by a copyright-owner, the media and ...

Among those issues was the breadth and validity of Thomson Reuters’ alleged copyright in its compilation registration for Westlaw headnotes, and Ross’ fair use defense. Although liability was ...

Kirkland partners explain how they came to advise Thomson Reuters in its successful copyright suit against ROSS Intelligence ...