[qingcharles]

Westlaw's headnotes are primarily just snippets of the case with tags attached. They are really crappy. I hate them. Some lawyers love them.

Westlaw protects them because they are the "value add." Otherwise their business model is "take published decisions the court is legally bound to provide for free and sell it to you."

An LLM today could easily recreate the headnotes in a far superior manner from scratch with the right prompt. I don't even think hallucinations would factor in on such a small task that was well regulated, but you can always just asterisk the headnotes and put a disclaimer on them.

[Tteriffic]

Exactly. Why use the headnotes at all?

I always thought they were obviously were copyrightable. Plus they’re not close to perfect either.