Partner Steven Lieberman is quoted in a Barron's article discussing a Federal judge in Delaware's ruling that artificial intelligence (AI) startup Ross Intelligence violated Thomson Reuters' copyright by indirectly using its content to train an AI product. This is one of the first court decisions in the ongoing discussion around artificial intelligence and intellectual property, and if it's used as precedent it could mean trouble for AI companies.
Steven, who represents both The New York Times and eight local newspapers in two separate copyright infringement lawsuits against Microsoft and OpenAI, told Barron's that if AI companies "want to use copyrighted content to train their models, they have to pay for it. This decision is a warning shot that they should heed that it’s not acceptable.”
Read the full article, "AI Stocks Face New Legal Risk Following Federal Court Ruling" by Adam Levine on Barron's website.
