THE SPARTAN CASELAW CONTENT

Our editors put a lot of skill, time and craftmanship into the selection and creation of our content. It is our content. The subscription gives the named user access to our content, not ownership of it. Our case summaries are protected by the Copyright Act 98 of 1978 and knowingly distributing copyright-protected content is an offence.

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Acceptable use of our content

• Emailing a certain summary to a colleague because it is of interest to them.

• Copying a summary or parts thereof into your case preparation documents, such as opinions or heads.

• Saving the occasional summary into your own "favourites" collection for your own use.

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Prohibited use of our content

• Copying all or substantial portions of the content to create your own caselaw database.

• Distributing our summaries to others within emails or as attachments in Word or PDF documents.

• Using our summaries in your own products, marketing materials, articles and websites.

• Copying our summaries into Google Docs, Sharepoint or internal folders where others have access.

• Sharing your username and password with others.

• Using our summaries to train Artificial Intelligence or machine learning models.

• Using our content to support a Bot, AI Assistant or natural language program.

• Scraping, analyzing or harvesting our content in any way with any program or automated process.

• Knowledge Managers and Information Specialists using our case selection and index categorizations, or the flynotes (keyword summaries), to build their own case law databases.​

• Competitors using our daily case selection when compiling their own case law or legal update products.

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NB: Doing any of these prohibited actions will lead to cancellation and blacklisting.