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Re:Jury in Oracle v. Google finds in Google's favour by sounds on Thursday May 26, 2016 @07:31PM (#11782585)
This law suit is frivolous based on the assumption that APIs are not copyrightable (a very reasonable assumption in 2009).
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Re:Jury in Oracle v. Google finds in Google's favour by icebraining on Thursday May 26, 2016 @08:42PM (#11783030)
But the result of the trial was that they are copyrightable, so clearly it wasn't frivolous.
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Re:Jury in Oracle v. Google finds in Google's favour by geofft on Friday May 27, 2016 @01:08AM (#11784025)
The appellate court ruled that the law is that APIs are copyrightable, and sent it back. The jury decision here was that Google made fair use of a copyrighted API, not that APIs aren't copyrightable.
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