Federal Appeals Court Deals Blow to Use of Copyrighted Works to Train AI

The 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals handed down a ruling Tuesday (Sept. 29) that Ross Intelligence ’s use of copyrighted material to train its legal artificial intelligence search engine was not fair use and affirmed a lower court’s grant of summary judgment to Thomson Reuters . The ruling is the first by a federal appeals court, setting a potential landmark precedent in the legal battle over AI and copyright.