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Judge Bibas: "Wisdom does not always find me, so I try to embrace it when it does––even if it comes late, as it did here."
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Judge Bibas changed his mind in a dispute between Thompson-Reuters and Ross Ross .
Ross alleges that Ross used the Westlaw headnotes to train a competing AI product.
The text of judicial opinions is not copyrightable, but a headnote can introduce creativity by distilling, synthesizing, or explaining part of an opinion, and thus be copyrightable.
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https://www.lawnext.com/2025/02/breaking-federal-judge-rules-legal-research-startup-ross-infringed-westlaws-copyrights-rejecting-fair-use-defense.htmlhttps://www.lawnext.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/D.-Del.-20-cv-00613-dckt-000547_000-filed-2023-09-25.pdfhttps://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/335/595https://www.lawnext.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-11-Memorandum-dckt-770_0.pdfhttps://www.lawnext.com/2023/09/breaking-judge-rules-ross-intelligence-copied-westlaws-headnotes-but-leaves-for-jury-to-decide-if-it-violated-thomson-reuters-copyright.htmlhttps://www.goodreads.com/quotes/250553-but-it-is-better-to-learn-wisdom-late-than-never
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