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Re:Supreme Court to Hear Google-Oracle Copyright Fight by jimnotgym on Saturday November 16, 2019 @03:26AM (#21551617)
Perhaps they are not idiots, they are just trying to apply laws written for books and music to software. That is not their fault, they don't get to make laws, only interpret them.

I think this is another case where the law makers have been rather slow to keep up. Copyright is not really working in this era.

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Re:Supreme Court to Hear Google-Oracle Copyright Fight by zelphirkalt on Saturday November 16, 2019 @07:24AM (#21552313)
> That is not their fault, they don't get to make laws, only interpret them.

Isn't that exactly what the parent of your post called:

> These judges are essentially monkeys in a machine shop.

Blindly trying to apply an unfitting law, because those are the instructions?

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