Litigator Service class action
A lawsuit has been commenced on behalf of lawyers and law firms for the unauthorized reproduction of legal documents in the Litigator Service, reports the IP Osgoode blog.
According to the plaintiff’s lawyers:
“The lawsuit alleges that Thomson Reuters maintains a web-site which contains reproductions of filed court documents, and permits its subscribers to access these written materials without the consent of the lawyers who authored the court documents. The claim pleads that the lawyers are the owners of copyright in these legal materials, and that Thomson Reuters has infringed the Copyright Act by its actions. The allegations in the statement of claim have not been proven in Court. No statement of defence has yet been filed by Thomson Reuters.”
