Thomson Reuters has won an early battle in court over the question of fair use in artificial intelligence-related copyright cases.

Legal experts said there are key differences in Thomson Reuters' case against Ross Intelligence and other major AI-related copyright litigation.

After reconsidering the case, the judge issued a partial summary judgement, which asks whether a non-generative AI system’s content counts as original work.

Following several rightsholder setbacks in copyright actions against AI developers, Thomson Reuters has scored a major “fair use” victory. That important win arrived in the form of a fresh summary judgement ruling from Judge Stephanos Bibas,