Section 74 of the Indian Contracts Act, 1872 (‘Contracts Act’) deals with enforcement of a Liquidated Damages (‘LD’) clause.

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 ...

Comparing the bulk memo questions and the Westlaw headnotes side by side, Judge Bibas concluded that Ross infringed a total of 2,243 headnotes, the only remaining issue being whether copyright in ...

Did Ross Copy Thomson Reuters’ Headnotes? The court went through the exercise of comparing each of the 2,830 Bulk Memos against both the Thomson Reuters headnotes and the full judicial opinions.

In Tuesday’s ruling, Bibas found that Ross may have infringed on more than 2,200 headnotes. To decide damages, a jury will determine whether any of Thomson Reuters’ copyrights have expired.

"Headnotes" ruling a drawDeputy Attorney General Jason Dunn, whose office represented Owens in the case, said it’s possible the legislature may still be able to use headnotes, “but the courts ...

The judge asked for additional summary judgment briefing both on Thomson Reuters’ contention that ROSS infringed on its copyrighted headnotes and Key Number System and on ROSS’s fair-use defense.

Fair use ruling concerns use of Westlaw headnotes Legal research firm Ross Intelligence sought to use content from Westlaw, Thomson Reuters’ legal research platform, to train an AI search tool.

Ross had earlier claimed its use of the headnotes as “innocent infringement,” which Judge Bibas dismissed on Tuesday, stating that Westlaw’s headnotes clearly bear a copyright notice.

Thomson Reuters’ lawsuit filed against ROSS, first filed in 2020 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, alleged that as of 2017, legal services provider LegalEase Solutions had ...