Westlaw owner's dispute with AI startup over legal data moves to jury
AI training data case centres on legal research platform Westlaw | Judge asks “is it in public benefit to allow AI to be trained with copyrighted material?” | C
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AI training data case centres on legal research platform Westlaw | Judge asks “is it in public benefit to allow AI to be trained with copyrighted material?” | C
Thomson Reuters Corp (NYSE: TRI) will face Ross Intelligence in court, as a Delaware federal judge ruled that a jury should decide the lawsuit's outcome. Thomson Reuters accuses Ross Intelligence of unlawfully copying content from its legal research platform, Westlaw, to develop a competing AI-based platform. Also Read: Hollywood Strike: Writers Secure Credit as Studios Retain AI Training Rights in New Deal U.S. Circuit Judge Stephanos Bibas' decision could potentially lead to one of the first t
A jury must decide the outcome of a lawsuit by information services company Thomson Reuters accusing Ross Intelligence of unlawfully copying content from its legal-research platform Westlaw to train a competing artificial intelligence-based platform, a Delaware federal judge said on Monday. The decision by U.S. Circuit Judge Stephanos Bibas sets the stage for what could be one of the first trials related to the unauthorized use of data to train AI systems. Tech companies including Meta Platforms, Stability AI and Microsoft-backed OpenAI are also facing lawsuits from authors, visual artists a...
A judge has ordered that a jury decide a dispute over the use of artificial intelligence learning from published content, in what will be one of the first…
Thomson Reuters' 2020 lawsuit accused legal research company Ross Intelligence of copying Westlaw's "headnotes," which summarise points of law in court opinions. It accused Ross of misusing thousands of the headnotes to train its AI-based legal search engine.