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Google Says 3rd Parties Would Be Liable For Java Infringement
angry tapir writes "Third parties, not Google, would be liable for any Java copyright violations in the Android mobile OS, according to a filing Google made in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. Oracle sued Google in August over a number of alleged Java patent and copyright violations in Android."
"Oracle has come to the Court with unclean hands due to its practice of requiring licensees of its purportedly open software to pay for licenses to items not covered by Oracle's alleged intellectual property in order to receive a license under Oracle's alleged intellectual property."
A sentence only the deranged mind of a lawyer could love.
"what" do you mean "by" that?
Google is still distributing illegal copies.
"The 1976 Copyright Act, as amended in 1999, authorizes statutory damages of up to $150,000 per work infringed in cases of willful infringement and from $750 up to $30,000 in cases of non-willful infringement."
Google is making copies, they are possibly illegal. Doesn't matter the license they thought they had, they can still be held responsible up $30,000 a copy.
(source for quote https://litigation-essentials.lexisnexis.com/webcd/app?action=DocumentDisplay&crawlid=1&doctype=cite&docid=6-93+Intellectual+Property+Counseling+%26+Litigation+93.syn&srctype=smi&srcid=2A4E&key=5aad85e0a403aa12c7b112ffd6180668)
Wow, sent an e-mail as suggested when clicking on "use classic" banner, and got a fast response that addressed my msg
Which Larry?
Larry of Oracle or Larry of Google?
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Oh look, another stupid SCO investors bitter because PJ called it right. Pal, even your momma thinks you're stupid.
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Is it legal and viable for a lawyer to do stuff like:
"My client never laid eyes on the victim of this horrible crime; but even if he did, he was not at the scene of the murder at the time of the killing; but even if he was, he's not the shooter; but even if he was, he was insane; and if he wasn't, then it was clearly self-defense."
This is where polymorphism comes in:
class Larry (){
public String go_fuck_yourself() {
"Self fucked."
}
}
public static void main (String[] args){
Larry ellison = new Larry();
Larry brin = new Larry();
ellison.go_fuck_yourself();
brin.go_fuck_yourself();
}