Generative AI Meets Copyright Law: Lawsuits, Fair Use, and the Road Ahead

Presented by: Andrew Jiang

In Thomson Reuters Enter. Ctr. GmbH v. Ross Intel. Inc., 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 24296, one of the first legal decision regarding GenAI and copyright infringement, the court found that an AI startup is liable for copyright infringement when it copied all the legal decision summaries in creating a legal research search engine powered by AI. It provides insights on the application of fair use test to GenAI scenarios.