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IP IQ
Brick by Brick: Federal Court Reviews LEGO’s Arguments Over a Piece of the ‘Queer Eye’ Set
By Adam Baker
On September 27, 2026, the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut ruled on summary judgment in Concannon v. LEGO Systems, Inc., No. 3:21-cv-01678 (D. Conn.). At the heart…
The IPKat
An ‘ordinary’ copyright case on the limits of fair use for non-generative AI-powered search engines
‘This story begins with our country’s founding’ writes Third Circuit Judge Montgomery-Reeves in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence. Referring to the much older history of American commercial legal publishing, Montgomery-Reeves…
The IP Law Blog
The Briefing: Cooperstown Strikes Out: Parody, Fair Use & Trademark Law
By Scott Hervey, Richard Buckley
https://youtu.be/CF1fwlZLv20 Can a brand stop a creator from making fun of it? In this episode of The Briefing, Weintraub Tobin partners Scott Hervey and Richard D. Buckley, Jr. break down…
Computer & Internet Law Updates
Thomson Reuters v ROSS: What the AI Training Fair Use Ruling Means.
The Third Circuit’s opinion in Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH; West Publishing Corp v. ROSS Intelligence Inc., 2026 WL 2932557 (3rd Cir. Sep. 29, 2026), is an important and first…
Jotwell
Insightful New Empirical Study Measuring Market Effects
The Copyright Act is turning fifty this year. One of the many things that has not changed in U.S. copyright law is a ongoing struggle to map the territory of…
Above the Fold
Easy Isn’t Fair: The Third Circuit Explains Why Copying Westlaw Headnotes to Train AI Failed the Fair Use Test
The Third Circuit has now shown its work. On October 1, 2026, Above the Fold reported that the court affirmed the judgment for Thomson Reuters in its suit against Ross…
TheTMCA.com
Training in the Safe Zone: Building AI Models in Copyright Havens
The global artificial intelligence race is no longer defined solely by compute power and algorithmic breakthroughs. It is increasingly shaped by national copyright policies governing the ingestion of training data.…
Copyright Lately
Everyone Won the Ross Fair Use Appeal. Except Ross.
By Aaron Moss
Rights holders and AI advocates are both calling the Third Circuit’s Ross decision a win. They’re just reading different parts of it. The case turned on one question, and it’s…
BakerHostetler
What <em>Thomson Reuters v. Ross</em> Does and Doesn’t Say NOW About Fair Use and Generative AI
In February 2025, I assessed the operative summary judgment opinion in Thomson Reuters v. Ross and guessed at what it might mean for generative AI copyright litigation. I drew a…
Copyright Lately
Signed, Sealed, Affirmed: Third Circuit Backs Thomson Reuters over ROSS
By Aaron Moss
The first federal appeals court to examine fair use in AI training sided with Thomson Reuters over ROSS Intelligence. Why it did so, for now, is under seal. For a…