That’s a very specific case that shouldn’t have set any precedent going forward. Especially since the content might not even be copyrightable.

Headnotes are short summaries of uncopyrightable court opinions offered to Westlake clients, so there’s some disagreement among legal experts about the extent to which these snippets of text should qualify for copyright protection, individually or as part of a compilation.

Also, the fact that judge flip-flopped on his decision raises the question of bias, at least for me.

First decision: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ded.72109/gov.uscourts.ded.72109.547.0_4.pdf Second decision: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ded.72109/gov.uscourts.ded.72109.770.0.pdf