[Advocacy Advisors] Fair use for legal briefs

Fri Feb 15 18:20:07 UTC 2013

Personally, I'm unfamiliar with any such. Wikipedia's stance, so far as I
know, has always been that judgments are copyright free and that other
documents are subject to the non-free content policy and guideline.

Maggie

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Stephen LaPorte <slaporte at wikimedia.org>wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Here is a ruling in New York about fair use for legal briefs and other
> court filings:
>
> http://newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com/Legal/News/2013/02_-_February/Copyright_suit_dismissed_against_Lexis,_Westlaw/
>
> Does anyone know of any recent on-wiki discussions about fair use analysis
> of court documents?
>
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