With ROSS, Westlaw hearing on the horizon, fair use ruling draws attention
By Melissa Ritti ( April 9, 2026, 18:40 GMT | Insight) -- ROSS Intelligence is feeling buoyed by a new precedential holding that online publication of standards incorporated in the International Building Code is sufficiently transformative to excuse admitted copying. “We believe the opinion will provide genuine guidance to the Third Circuit,” counsel for the shuttered AI legal research platform told MLex Thursday.In a letter to the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Wednesday, ROSS Intelligence made the case that a new decision by that court could be dispositive of copyright infringement claims leveled by Thomson Reuters....
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