{"id":543,"date":"2014-07-16T19:51:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T19:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?p=543"},"modified":"2023-12-21T17:16:24","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T17:16:24","slug":"west-and-lexis-have-fair-use-rights-to-publish-searchable-versions-of-briefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/2014\/07\/16\/west-and-lexis-have-fair-use-rights-to-publish-searchable-versions-of-briefs\/","title":{"rendered":"West and Lexis have &#8220;fair use&#8221; rights to publish searchable versions of briefs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Judge Jed Rakoff of the Southern Districit\u00a0in New York \u00a0 held that legal publishers West and Lexis did not violate copyright law by publishing searchable versions of lawyers briefs. Their conduct was a protected &#8220;fair use&#8221; because it was transformative, changing the purpose and character of the works.\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/sdnyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/12-Civ.-01340-2014.07.03-Summary-Judgment-Opinion.pdf\" class=\"mtli_attachment mtli_pdf\" target=\"_blank\">White v. West Publ&#8217;g Corp<\/a>., 2014 WL 3057885 (S.D. N.Y. 2014).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/intellectual-property\/\" rel=\"tag\">Intellectual Property<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge Jed Rakoff of the Southern Districit\u00a0in New York \u00a0 held that legal publishers West and Lexis did not violate copyright law by publishing searchable versions of lawyers briefs. Their conduct was a protected &#8220;fair use&#8221; because it was transformative, changing the purpose and character of the works.\u00a0White v. West Publ&#8217;g Corp., 2014 WL 3057885 (S.D. N.Y. 2014).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intellectual-property"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"jsinger","author_link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/author\/jsinger\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}