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If it's a registration problem, presumably Oracle could reregister, but it's too late for this case, and likely any derivative works

I think it is possibly more damaging than that. Even if Oracle does change their copyright I don't think it would be retroactive. There is now (presumably) a published book out there with an invalid copyright. If I worked off of it, it would be unfair to make me scrap my work later. As well if Oracle will likely have to change the type of copyright so that they only have control over the parts that they actually wrote or had assigned to them.

It is possible that Oracle will leave the copyright part of the case in worse shape than before they brought the case and will have lost more control of Java. We will have to wait and see. But this could be a real reap what you sow moment.

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• whoops - Authored by: eachus on Thursday, April 26 2012 @ 12:06 AM EDT