He asked U.S. District Judge DeniseCote, who is overseeing a trial expected to last several weeks, to find that the computer company had violated anti-trust laws.
U.S. District Judge DeniseCote, who is presiding over the U.S. case, said at a pretrial hearing last month she believed the Justice Department would be able to prove its case.
U.S. District Judge DeniseCote rejected Meltwater's claims that its use of Web stories drawn from a scan of 162, 000 news websites from more than 190 countries was a fair use of copyright-protected material.