⚖️ A federal judge has ruled that attorneys representing January 6 defendants must face a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by jury consultant Lindsay Olson.
The dispute centers around a jury-attitude report Olson created for Oath Keepers defendants, which was later allegedly reused by other defense attorneys in venue-transfer motions without her permission.
The attorneys argued that the report qualified as fair use and that filing it on a public court docket removed copyright protection. But Judge Beryl Howell rejected those arguments for now, stating that publicly filed materials do not automatically lose copyright status.
One of the most notable lines from the ruling:
“To hold otherwise would strip copyright protection from every photograph, book, film, song, or other creative work ever filed on the public docket in a litigation.”
The case raises bigger questions about fair use, intellectual property rights, and how copyrighted materials can be used in legal proceedings.
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