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Third Circuit affirms summary judgment rejection of fair use defense by ROSS Intelligence. Opinion under seal for now.

The Third Circuit affirmed Judge Bibas's grant of summary judgment in favor of Thomson Reuters for copyright infringement, rejecting ROSS Intelligence's fair use defense over its use of Westlaw headnotes in memos used to train its AI model. Judge Montgomery-Reeves authored the panel's opinion, which remains under seal for now.

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Third Circuit affirms summary judgment rejection of fair use defense by ROSS Intelligence. Opinion under seal for now.
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Probably as expected from the oral argument, the Third Circuit affirmed Judge Bibas’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Thompson Reuters for copyright infringement and rejecting the fair use defense of ROSS Intelligence in its use of Westlaw headnotes in memos used to train its AI model. Judge Montgomery-Reeves is listed as the author of the panel’s opinion.

The opinion is sealed for now, however:

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