A US appeals court upholds a ruling for Thomson Reuters in its copyright lawsuit against Ross Intelligence, rejecting Ross' fair use defense for AI training (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
A US appeals court has upheld a ruling in favor of Thomson Reuters in its copyright lawsuit against Ross Intelligence. The court rejected Ross Intelligence's defense that its use of Thomson Reuters' content for AI training constituted fair use. This decision reinforces the legal stance against unauthorized use of copyrighted material for artificial intelligence model training.
- ▪The US appeals court ruled in favor of Thomson Reuters in its copyright dispute with Ross Intelligence.
- ▪The court specifically rejected Ross Intelligence's argument that its AI training activities qualified as fair use.
- ▪The ruling addresses the legal boundaries of using copyrighted news content to train artificial intelligence models.
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| Original publisher | Techmeme |
| Canonical URL | https://www.techmeme.com/260929/p53#a260929p53 |
| Publication time | Tue, 29 Sep 2026 19:00:49 -0400 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-29T23:02:33.563Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-29T23:02:33.563Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | TFZpa0MNawH9 · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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