AI company defends use of scraped Westlaw data in Third Circuit copyright appeal
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ROSS argues its unauthorized use of Westlaw headnotes to train a legal AI tool is fair use.Summary
A defunct AI company, ROSS Intelligence, argued before a three-judge Third Circuit panel that its unauthorized scraping of Westlaw headnotes to train a competing legal research tool qualifies as fair use. Thomson Reuters sued ROSS in 2020, alleging that ROSS hired LegalEase Solutions to scrape Westlaw data and bypass subscription restrictions so it could quickly launch a rival product without building its own dataset. A federal district court sided with Reuters in 2025, finding infringement, and ROSS appealed.
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