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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 05 2012 @ 04:28 PM EDT |
I have argued this since day one.
This is not only about software/Google/Android/Apis/Oracle/Java/Money, the
ramifications of success for Oracle in copyright infringement claims around SSO
will smash apart decades of industry practice in software just for starters.
If any ruling that is made in Oracles favour<deity forfend/> is not very
strictly limited in it's scope, the ramifications for every creative industry
are immense
Pictures/photographs/artworks where boat in sea, sea below, sky above is a
copyrighted SSO.
Music where a key change for the chorus is a copyrighted SSO
Books where 2 characters stories intertwine in alternating chapters culminating
in the last as they finally come together forever closed because someone has a
copyright in the SSO.
Had plaintiff not lied about the compilation/collection aspect this could have
been and should gave been dealt with on summary judgement.
Because that has now come out, judge Alsup and the jury find themselves wading
through the weeds looking for a way out that doesn't render the whole show
redundant while plaintiff continues
For all the noise there is nothing new in this case and it should never have
come before a jury.
It is only there through deception.
You cannot copyright a concept.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, May 06 2012 @ 06:04 AM EDT |
Keep in mind that this will only happen in the USA, which (contrary to some
opinions) is not the whole world. The EU has effectively forbidden this, and I
suspect a lot of other countries will go the EU way once they work out the
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