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Re:Supreme Court to Hear Google-Oracle Copyright Fight by anticensor on Saturday November 16, 2019 @01:41AM (#21551352)
> you can not only lose the infringement case but in extreme cases even lose the copyright entirely.

Does the work become public domain or government royalty subject in that case? If the latter, it is worse since the government cannot be sued for copyright misuse, either.

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Re:Supreme Court to Hear Google-Oracle Copyright Fight by gpm on Saturday November 16, 2019 @01:46AM (#21551367)
Public domain or some state that approximates it (this is really not a well explored area of law and I'm not an expert).
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Re:Supreme Court to Hear Google-Oracle Copyright Fight by anticensor on Saturday November 16, 2019 @02:13AM (#21551451)
I asked because government royalty subjects are something extremely (and I consider dangerously) commonplace in Europe.
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Re:Supreme Court to Hear Google-Oracle Copyright Fight by rocqua on Saturday November 16, 2019 @04:06AM (#21551721)
Do you have any examples of that? I'm European and don't know what you mean.
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Re:Supreme Court to Hear Google-Oracle Copyright Fight by anticensor on Sunday November 17, 2019 @11:44AM (#21558675)
Works of government that are copyrighted by the government are called government royalty subjects.
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