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Leo Migdal

-Dec 9, 2025, 4:33 AM

The long-running copyright litigation between Thomson Reuters and ROSS Intelligence is now pending in the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for an interlocutory appeal of the trial judge’s rulings in favor of TR. Recently here, I reported on the 10 amicus curiae briefs filed in support of ROSS, all arguing that the now-defunct AI legal research startup did not violate copyright law. Now, nine amicus briefs have been filed in support of TR. Those filing briefs range from major movie studios such as Disney and Paramount, to news media and copyright organizations, to individual copyright law professors, and even to TR’s principal competitor LexisNexis. (Note: All of my stories covering this case back to 2020 can be found here.)

The primary argument of all nine briefs is that Westlaw’s headnotes are sufficiently original to qualify for copyright and that ROSS’s unauthorized copying of them to build its AI legal research platform was not... On Nov. 26, the News/Media Alliance filed an amicus brief in Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence, Inc., a case concerning Ross Intelligence’s unauthorized use of Thomson Reuters’ Westlaw headnotes to build an AI-powered legal search engine to compete directly with Westlaw. The brief, in support of Thomson Reuters, highlighted news publishers’ reliance on copyright to protect their investment in quality journalism, and noted that uses like Ross’ undermine their ability to create and disseminate original... The brief argued that the district court had correctly found Ross’ use of over 2,000 headnotes infringing, and urged the circuit court to uphold the basic fair use tenet that one may not engage...

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Courage, creativity and collaboration to build a resilient future were the operating words and they matched the mood. There was also a dark shadow hanging over the proceedings, provided courtesy of the attempt to cancel Jimmy Kimmel Live just the evening before the conference. We didn’t know at the time that he would be reinstated a few days later. The symposium urged funders to shift power, defend democracy, and invest in equity-driven systems change. Yet, how can any of these ambitions be realised if the information ecosystem that underpins them is crumbling? My point is that not only democracies, but entire civilisations perish in darkness; it is no hyperbole in our current context.

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