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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google by wolfgke on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @11:51AM (#16689668)
> The issue is can a public API be copyrighted. That is the scary issue.

In Roman Law there is the principle "In dubio pro reo" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_dubio_pro_reo), which means that if there are doubts whether the culprit is guilty or not, he/she may not be convicted.

Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google by yoklov on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @11:59AM (#16689750)
I feel like this probably is intended to apply in criminal cases and not civil. (And a copyright case like this would certainly be civil, and not criminal)

In the US, it at least seems that something similar does, in so far as we require a unanimous vote by the jury to convict someone in a criminal trial, but a simple majority for a civil.

Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google by blattimwind on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @12:03PM (#16689791)