In late 2024, the nonprofit sued Caseway for allegedly harvesting its data to create an artificial intelligence-powered legal technology tool.
Caseway founder and CEO Alistair Vigier said his company and the Canadian Legal Information Institute (Can PII) are moving towards a settlement, just over a year after the online database sued LegalTech startup for copyright infringement.
Customs of the vigil Canadian lawyer this week the parties “resolved the main issues [in the case] and agreed on a framework to move beyond litigation.” Vigier added that he could not comment further on the “settlement” between the parties at this stage.
“[This is] The right way is for AI companies and publishers to do this instead of suing each other.”
Alistair Vigier, Caseway
In an email to BetaKit on Wednesday, Vigier confirmed that “there has been no progress in the litigation” since the lawsuit was filed in November 2024, and that the parties were “instead working on how to resolve our differences.” He added that he believes this form of dispute resolution is “the right way for AI companies and publishers to do this instead of suing each other.”
BetaKit has reached out to CanLII for comment.
CanLII, a non-profit organization founded by the Federation of Law Societies of Canada, provides an online database of court decisions, legislation and legal commentary from all Canadian courts.
IN lawsuitfiled in the Supreme Court of British Columbia, CanLII alleged that Caseway created a business by wrongfully taking CanLII's work through bulk and systematic downloading from its online database without permission or compensation. The lawsuit adds that in doing so, Caseway violated CanLII's terms of use and its copyright. The organization sought an injunction preventing Caseway from reproducing the allegedly stolen works, as well as monetary damages.
CONNECTED: Online legal database CanLII sues Caseway AI for copyright infringement
Viger denied CanLII's claims in a statement to BetaKit, saying the court documents Caseway is studying on are publicly available. When asked if Caseway extracted any documents or data from CanLII, Viger responded that Caseway “does not use any data or enhancements of CanLII” but only court decisions.
Caseway launched in late 2024 with an artificial intelligence chatbot marketed as a legal research assistant designed to collect, explain and summarize Canadian legal information and court decisions. Caseway was supported in July 2025 by integration deal with AffiniPay, which owns various legal practice management software, including MyCase. At the time, Vigier said in an email to BetaKit that the deal would see “tens of thousands of law firms” integrate Caseway through MyCase.
Last month Caseway also announced partnership with the University of British Columbia on a two-year research project that aims to reduce the amount of false legal information generated by artificial intelligence tools such as Caseway. Hundreds of lawyers were caught using artificial intelligence tools after their work was exposed in false court cases.
Caseway's claim was only one of countless court cases against artificial intelligence companies, many of which are still ongoing. Canadian news publishers sued OpenAIclaiming he violated Canadian copyright law while teaching ChatGPT, while Canadian developer LLM Cohere facing his own lawsuit from another group of publishers. In the world of legal tech, Burnaby, British Columbia-based Legaltech Clio has taken on fellow Canadian company Alexi. to court in December according to the database in the heart Clio's recent AI transformation.
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