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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Jury rules Google violated copyright law,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (PRIVACY Forum mailing list)
Mon May 7 15:23:05 2012
Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 12:03:14 -0700
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http://j.mp/KfNoNn (ars technica)
"In what could be a major blow to Android, Google's mobile operating
system, a San Francisco jury issued a verdict today that the company
broke copyright laws when it used Java APIs to design the system. The
ruling is a partial victory for Oracle, which accused Google of
violating copyright law. But the jury couldn't reach agreement on a
second critical issue-whether Google had a valid "fair use" defense
when it used the APIs. Google has asked for a mistrial based on the
incomplete verdict, and that issue will be briefed later this week."
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If this kind of insanity had been present decades ago, the entire
Internet, such as it might be, could be essentially owned by AT&T, and
all PCs manufactured perhaps only by IBM. And every commercial (at
least) program written would require payments to whomever managed to
claim ownership of a programming language first. This kind of
"intellectual property" madness is costing us billions and billions of
dollars, and increasingly holding back innovation as would-be
innovators fear someone coming after them demanding payments for
almost every line of code they write.
--Lauren--
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