Thomson Reuters: Lorne Waldman

Thomson Reuters Corp. Dept: One lawyer, noted immigration and human rights practitioner Lorne Waldman, thinks Thomson Reuters has been getting a free ride by taking documents that he has drafted - such as a notable factum on behalf of Maher Arar in Ontario Court of Appeal case Bouzari v. Islamic Republic of Iran - and offering them to other lawyers for a fee, according to Vancouver Sun. The judge's certification decision doesn't conclusively deal with the issue of who owns the rights to court documents drafted by lawyers and an Ontario judge's decision to certify a $51-million class-action lawsuit against Thomson Reuters Corp. for copyright breach raises the question of what value society should place on the reproduction of lawyers' work - especially when that material is copied from public court files. In 2010, he launched a proposed class proceeding alleging breach of copyright against Thomson Reuters. On Feb. 21, Mr. Justice Paul Perell of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice certified the case. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.