February 11, 2013
A New York federal judge on Monday dismissed an Oklahoma attorney's claims that LexisNexis and Westlaw violated federal copyright law by reselling his court briefs without permission.
May 16, 2012
A New York federal judge on Wednesday tossed copyright infringement claims by attorneys who had not registered their work and accuse LexisNexis and Westlaw in a putative class action of reposting their work without permission.
May 08, 2012
It is settled law that in order to bring a copyright suit, plaintiffs must have registered a copyright, and arguments to the contrary by attorneys accusing LexisNexis and Westlaw of reposting their work without permission are "absurd," the database operators told a New York federal court Monday.
April 26, 2012
Attorneys accusing LexisNexis and Westlaw of illegally copying lawyers' copyrighted works fought a move Thursday to toss a subclass of unregistered attorney authors, arguing a class representative may seek injunctive and declaratory relief even without registration.
April 06, 2012
Reed Elsevier Inc.'s LexisNexis on Friday moved to toss a subclass of unregistered attorney authors from a putative class action accusing the company of illegally copying attorneys' copyrighted works, arguing the subclass consists of people who lack the standing to bring copyright infringement claims.
February 24, 2012
A proposed class action accusing legal research providers Westlaw and LexisNexis of infringing the copyrights of attorneys by selling online access to legal filings raises novel issues in copyright law, but the database operators should have a strong defense under the fair use doctrine, lawyers say.