In Feilin v Baidu, the Beijing Internet Court considered whether
copyright subsists in a report generated using software for
searching case judgments and generating comparison tables and
charts.
In this case, Feilin brought a copyright infringement claim
against Baidu for republishing a report that Feilin initially
posted on WeChat. The report was produced using a piece of
software, Wolters Kluwer China Law & Reference, and the
defendant, Baidu, argued that this meant copyright does not subsist
in the report.
Was the report at issue produced entirely by software?
Feilin stated that the report had been produced initially using
Wolters Kluwer China Law & Reference to search for judgments
and generate drawings based on criteria provided by the their
employees. Their employees then modified the drawings and analysed
the statistics provided by the platform in order to create the
report. The defendant, however, contended that the entire report
was generated by the
