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AI company argues its use of scraped Westlaw legal data was transformative
ROSS Intelligence, a defunct AI company, argued in a Third Circuit case that using 0.08% of Westlaw's headnotes to train its legal research AI was transformative, countering Thomson Reuters' copyright claims. A lower court ruled in favor of Reuters, but ROSS appeals, asserting its AI's ability to answer novel legal questions justifies fair use.
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