Thomson Reuters has won an initial court fight over fair use
A UK court on Wednesday rejected US billionaire Rick Ross’ defence of fair- use of Westlaw’s copyright-protected articles, saying it “doesn’t hold water” in the case. Ross had accused Westlaw of copyright violations, saying it used articles without permission. Westlaw is protected by copyright, the court said, adding that it couldn’t be used without its permission.
The popularity of Social Media may be coming to an end
US-based digital news aggregator Perplexity was sued by Dow Jones and New York Post for copyright infringement over alleged plagiarism of their news stories. The lawsuit said that Perplexity used copyrighted articles on WIRED, Wall Street Journal, Forbes and New York Post’s websites. It alleged that Perplexity falsely claimed WIRED had reported on a police officer committing a crime he didn’t commit.