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The first AI copyright win is here — but it’s limited in scope

A federal district court judge in Delaware issued the first major ruling on whether using copyrighted materials to train artificial intelligence systems constitutes copyright infringement.

On Feb. 11, Judge Stephanos Bibas granted a summary judgment to Thomson Reuters, which makes the legal research service Westlaw, against a company named Ross Intelligence. The judge found that Ross infringed on Reuters’ copyrights by using Westlaw headnotes — essentially case summaries — to train its own legal research AI.

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Is ChatGPT stealing from The New York Times?

We told you 2024 would be the year of “copyright clarity,” and while some legal disputes were already winding their way through the US courts, a whopper dropped on Dec. 31.

Just hours before the Big Apple’s ball dropped, The New York Times filed a lawsuit against the buzziest AI startup in the world, OpenAI, and its lead investor, Microsoft.

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