( September 30, 2026, 16:47 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Thomson Reuters’ Westlaw headnotes are copyrightable, and ROSS Intelligence’s use of that content to create its own competing product was not fair use, according to a recently unsealed opinion by the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. The court said that by copying the headnotes to build its own competing legal-research platform, ROSS appropriated the headnotes’ value. Additionally, by using the data to train its own artificial intelligence tool without Reuters’ authorization, ROSS usurped Reuters’ opportunity to enter that derivative market and license its headnotes for that purpose, the court said.See attached file. ...
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