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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @03:25PM (#16691913)
There's no provision for compulsory licensing for copyright because it's not supposed to inhibit technical implementations. Patents do that, and it least in the UK the law includes compulsory licensing.
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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google by geofft on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @04:22PM (#16692387)
US copyright law doesn't do compulsory licensing for anything other than music recordings, and I believe it doesn't have compulsory patent licensing at all. I'm not sure there's a good rationale for this.
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