Copyright case: Thomson Reuters Centre GmbH v. Ross Intelligence Inc., USA

The Third Circuit accepts an invitation to review a district court’s decision over the intersection of AI and fair use.

The Third Circuit will decide whether the creator of an artificial intelligence-driven legal research tool made a transformative use of Westlaw’s copyrighted headnote scheme by incorporating thousands of those headnotes into its AI training module, the court has announced. The court’s one-page order, in agreeing to accept an interlocutory appeal of a district court’s decision below, all but ensures that the Philadelphia-based tribunal will be the first court of appeals to weigh in on the application of fair use principles to AI-generated commercial products (Thomson Reuters Centre GmbH v. Ross Intelligence Inc., No. 25-8018 (3d Cir. Jun. 17, 2025)).

Case date: 17 June 2025
Case number: No. 25-8018
Court: United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit

A full summary of this case has been published on Kluwer IP Law