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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.
“It seems to me that the most important factor in the court’s decision was the fact that the defendant trained its model on Westlaw’s data in order to produce something that would perform almost exactly the same function as Westlaw,” Sag said. “That makes it quite different to a generative AI model trained on half of the Internet that has a broad range of capabilities and is not designed to specifically replace any one input or any one source of inputs.”
https://www.gzeromedia.com/gzero-ai/the-first-ai-copyright-win-is-here-but-its-limited-in-scope
