CBA – Lawsuit filed in B.C. Supreme Court alleges that Caseway AI violates CanLII’s terms of service and copyrights: “The Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII) has taken the makers of an AI chatbot to court over what it says is a violation of its terms of service, due to the chatbot scraping CanLII’s database in bulk. CanLII is funded by the Federation of Law Societies of Canada and was created in 2001, according to its website. It provides access to case decisions from across the country, legislation, and even law books and commentary. In its lawsuit filed in B.C. Supreme Court on Monday, it claims that Caseway AI infringed on its copyrighted work and its terms of use by “the bulk and systematic download and scraping” of around 3.5 million records. Launched earlier this fall, Caseway is a chatbot that its makers say aims to “improve access to justice for non lawyers and to make practicing law more efficient by providing enhanced legal research tools.”