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Breaking: Federal Judge Rules Legal Research Startup ROSS Infringed Westlaw’s Copyrights, Rejecting Fair Use Defense

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In a significant ruling for legal publishing and AI development, a federal judge has granted partial summary judgment to Thomson Reuters in its long-running copyright infringement lawsuit against ROSS Intelligence, finding that ROSS infringed on Westlaw’s copyrighted headnotes and rejecting ROSS’s fair use defense.

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Breaking: Judge Rules Ross Intelligence Copied Westlaw’s Headnotes, But Leaves for Jury to Decide if It Violated Thomson Reuters’ Copyright

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It has been a while since I have written about the copyright lawsuit by legal research giant Thomson Reuters against the no-shuttered legal research startup Ross Intelligence, in which TR alleges that Ross stole copyright content from Westlaw to build its own completing legal research product.

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Breaking: Continuance Ordered On Eve of Trial In Thomas Reuters Lawsuit Against ROSS Intelligence

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ROSS Intelligence, in which TR is alleging that the now-shuttered legal research startup ROSS violated its copyrights by stealing content from Westlaw to build its own product. As I wrote here earlier this month, tomorrow was the scheduled start date for the trial in Thomson Reuters v.

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ROSS Cofounder Returns To Legal Tech with Startup Using AI To Surface Judges’ Decision-Making Patterns

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My 2019 post detailed my visit to ROSS’s Toronto research and development office. But ROSS’s trajectory changed in 2020, when legal research giant Thomson Reuters filed a lawsuit against ROSS , alleging that it stole content from Westlaw to build its own competing legal research product.

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The Five Most Momentous Legal Tech Fails

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He had even been selected to appear on the popular ABC television show Shark Tank , and, when I first wrote about him, he was slated to be a featured speaker at a major legal tech conference two weeks later. ROSS was ahead of its time in striving to use artificial intelligence to empower legal research. ROSS Intelligence.

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Judge Bibas Lays Down the Law on When AI Training Constitutes Copyright Infringement 

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Brett Trout In a significant decision for copyright law and legal technology, Judge Stephanos Bibas granted partial summary judgment in favor of Thomson Reuters, rejecting ROSS Intelligences fair use defense in a closely watched lawsuit over the use of Westlaws legal content.

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Plot Thickens In Thomson Reuters’ Lawsuit Against ROSS, As It Subpoenas Docs from Fastcase, Morae

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The subpoenas offer no explanation of how the companies may be related to the lawsuit, but request documents relating to any relationships between the companies and ROSS or LegalEase, the company that TR alleges ROSS engaged to help it steal content from Westlaw — an allegation the now-shuttered ROSS denies.

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