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Though headnotes have enough creative elements to be subject to copyright protection, they are relatively less creative than many other works. The court considered this factor to be less important ...

Revising his opinion from the 2023 summary judgment ruling, Judge Bibas now found enough originality in Westlaw’s headnotes to find no genuine dispute on that fact. “More than that, each ...

Inc., the court found that Westlaw’s headnotes exhibited enough of a “creative spark” to be considered “original,” “copyrightable” works and that Ross’ use of Westlaw headnotes to ...

This week, Bibas issued a summary judgment ruling finding ROSS Intelligence infringed 2,243 Westlaw headnotes. Bibas further found TR’s copyrights for headnotes and its Key Number System are ...

Westlaw provides paid users access to judicial decisions, state and federal regulations, law journals, editorials, and headnotes. In this case, the copyrighted material involved those headnotes ...

Thomson Reuters owns Westlaw, a major legal research platform containing case law, statutes, regulations, and editorial content like headnotes. Westlaw organizes this content using its copyrighted ...

These headnotes were “substantially similar” with language that “very closely tracks” the Bulk Memo question but not the language of the original case opinion. Fair use: Use was commercial ...

In February, Bibas ruled that ROSS had infringed on 2,2243 of Thomson Reuters’ Westlaw headnotes when training its research platform.

Thomson Reuters accused Ross of misusing thousands of the headnotes to train its AI-based legal search engine. Ross said it shut down its platform in January 2021, citing the costs of the ...