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Oracle Refuses To Accept Android's 'Fair Use' Verdict, Files Appeal (wsj.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the try-try-again dept.

An anonymous reader quotes the Wall Street Journal: The seven-year legal battle between tech giants Google and Oracle just got new life. Oracle on Friday filed an appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit that seeks to overturn a federal jury's decision last year... The case has now gone through two federal trials and bounced around at appeals courts, including a brief stop at the U.S. Supreme Court. Oracle has sought as much as $9 billion in the case.

In the trial last year in San Francisco, the jury ruled Google's use of 11,000 lines of Java code was allowed under "fair use" provisions in federal copyright law. In Oracle's 155-page appeal on Friday, it called Google's "copying...classic unfair use" and said "Google reaped billions of dollars while leaving Oracle's Java business in tatters."
Oracle's brief also argues that "When a plagiarist takes the most recognizable portions of a novel and adapts them into a film, the plagiarist commits the 'classic' unfair use."

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  1. Never ever by geek · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ever use Oracle for anything. Ever

    1. Re:Never ever by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Ever use Oracle for anything. Ever

      You don't use Oracle . . . Oracle uses you. That's their business model.

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  2. Not plagarism by Solandri · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Oracle's brief also argues that "When a plagiarist takes the most recognizable portions of a novel and adapts them into a film, the plagiarist commits the 'classic' unfair use."

    All that goes out the window when the novel's author openly tells everyone to use the novel without charge, which they do. Then the author dies and the person who buys the rights to the author's estate unilaterally decides it can undo what the author did in the past and tries to charge back-royalties for past use.

    A more fitting description here would be "bait and switch."

  3. Re:he's right by suutar · · Score: 5, Insightful

    well, if interfaces aren't fair use, the entire software industry is screwed.