Jury favors Oracle in preliminary verdict in google v oracle hearing

[Eerongal he/him]

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So apparently the jury found in favor oracle when the judge told them to "consider API's copyrightable and determine if google's use falls under fair use", which means that now it's going to end up falling upon the judge to determine if API's are copyrightable or not.....

[discipleofhoid he/him]

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So apparently the jury found in favor oracle when the judge told them to "consider API's copyrightable and determine if google's use falls under fair use", which means that now it's going to end up falling upon the judge to determine if API's are copyrightable or not.....

Well kind of (link) They found that Google infringed on copyright but couldn't decide if Google had a valid fair use defense or not. Google is saying that that means that they aren't culpable because their use might have been covered under fair use law and are asking for a mistrial declaration.

[Lady_Yasha she/her]

This is going to be a back-and-forth battle for an eternity. Oracle claims copyright of Java, Google claims copyrightable patents from IBM, Oracle acquires copyrightable database structure patent, Google obtains copyrightable CSS. It's the same thing as when Apple filed a lawsuit against other smartphone developers because they made their's - wait for it - rectangular!