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Title: Google Liable for Copyright Infringement, Jury Finds
Post by: Robert Krausankas (BuddhaPi) on May 08, 2012, 12:36:59 PM

A jury has found that Google infringed Oracle's Java copyrights in Android but could not decide unanimously if the infringement was protected by "fair use."

The jury's verdict, delivered Monday after a week of deliberation, is a partial victory for Oracle in its lawsuit against Google, but Oracle will have to wait longer -- possibly for a retrial -- to see whether Google will escape liability with its claim of fair use.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/255136/google_liable_for_copyright_infringement_jury_finds.html

Title: Re: Google Liable for Copyright Infringement, Jury Finds
Post by: stinger on May 08, 2012, 03:34:42 PM

Copyright infringement on an open source language (Java) is beyond me.  Doesn't open source mean, "go ahead and use it"?  It's gonna take a whole lot of smart folks to sort this one out.

Let's hope this doesn't spawn a new generation of computer and phone CI trolls