Buy AI Training Data legally - NO! Surprising new AI Copyright Case

Ross Intelligence bought 25,000 legal documents through a legitimate third party after Westlaw said no to licensing. Sound familiar? It's exactly how major AI companies get training data. But in an early court decision, Thomson Reuters just won their copyright claim - even though the data was legally purchased. Here's why this matters for the future of AI training data. Watch the full episode: AI's Split Valentine: 2019 Fear to 2024's First Fair Use Win https://youtu.be/6lZRf5wyjl0 Substack Pod Article and Podcast https://www.theaioptimist.com/p/ais-split-valentine-2019-fear-to AI Optimist Playlist https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcnLSSFnEr1P1U_4OEPCBe74ErhuBa0bR&si=mAVeuVGX77L4u8HC ================== Thomson Reuters wins AI copyright 'fair use' ruling against one-time competitor By Blake Brittain February 11, 2025 https://www.reuters.com/legal/thomson-reuters-wins-ai-copyright-fair-use-ruling-against-one-time-competitor-2025-02-11/ THOMSON REUTERS ROSS LAWSUIT fair use.pdf https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/xmvjbznbkvr/THOMSON%20REUTERS%20ROSS%20LAWSUIT%20fair%20use.pdf The Automation Assumption Was Wrong—The Revolution Eats Itself https://ninaschick.substack.com/p/the-automation-assumption-was-wrong Humanity's Last Exam (HLE) https://agi.safe.ai/ Common Crawl https://commoncrawl.org/ AI deemed ‘too dangerous to release’ makes it out into the world by Andrew Griffin https://www.the-independent.com/tech/ai-artificial-intelligence-dangerous-text-gpt2-elon-musk-a9192121.html US copyright office Part 1: Digital Replicas https://copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intelligence-Part-1-Digital-Replicas-Report.pdf Part 2 (out January 2025): Copyrightability https://www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intelligence-Part-2-Copyrightability-Report.pdf