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Friday, February 24, 2012
Courts - More on "Keep Your Hands off My Briefs: Lawyers Sue Westlaw, Lexis"
Updating yesterday's ILB entry, Law Librarian Blog has a good post today. Some quotes:
Two lawyers have opened a can of copyright worms by filing a class action suit against West and Lexis for using briefs in the brief banks sold by their respective companies. They allege that these documents are copyrighted by attorneys and seek damages, the amounts depending on whether the works are registered or not registered. * * *[S]ome questions come immediately to mind. The first is who actually owns the work. I understand the registration, but lawyers being lawyers and the smell of money enticing, will there be clients intervening claiming the document was a work for hire?
Posted by Marcia Oddi on February 24, 2012 03:08 PM
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