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Authored by: scav on Wednesday, May 02 2012 @ 08:39 AM EDT |
Cool. If Oracle prevail on their crazy API theory, US
technology companies have somewhere to go. Scotland is very
nice this time of year (Only kidding - of course it isn't).
As an aside, does this mean that all European use of and
development work on Android must be removed from the damages
calculation, since it is legal for Europeans to do what
Oracle think should be forbidden to US citizens? (Oh why do
Oracle hate America so much? :)
I expect it is purely academic because the "actual damages
from copyright violation" part of the calculation will
probably be zero, and the software patents part already
excludes everything outside the US.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 02 2012 @ 08:51 AM EDT |
The decision is expressed beautifully and clearly by the court:
"In this respect, the Court takes the view that, in the present case, the
keywords, syntax, commands and combinations of commands, options, defaults and
iterations consist of words, figures or mathematical concepts, considered in
isolation, are not, as such, an intellectual creation of the author of that
program."
I completely agree with this- but shouldn't that mean that you would wish the
jury to find that Google *has* infringed Oracle's copyright in the API? Then the
good judge would have to make a ruling on whether the API's could be copyrighted
as a matter of law in the first place- this would likely settle the legal issue
(at least until appeals). However, if the jury finds no infringement, the judge
makes no ruling and it leaves the question of the copyrightability of API's in
the legal grey zone, for some other company to come along and pull the stunt
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 02 2012 @ 08:53 AM EDT |
Page is broken, can you post a working link pls.
Thanks[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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