Fair Use Prevails in Oracle v. Google.

The author discusses reasons why the computer software firm Oracle could lose its appeal to a jury's May 2016 rejection of its claim that the technology company Google infringed on its copyrights by using 37 packages of its Java application program interface (API) to develop the Android platform for...

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Publicado en:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 59; no. 11; pp. 24 - 27
Autor principal:	Samuelson, Pamela
Formato:	Opinion
Publicado:	Association for Computing Machinery Nov2016
Materias:	Oracle Corp. Google Inc. Copyright lawsuits Application program interfaces Fair use (Copyright) Actions & defenses (Law) United States
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Sumario:	The author discusses reasons why the computer software firm Oracle could lose its appeal to a jury's May 2016 rejection of its claim that the technology company Google infringed on its copyrights by using 37 packages of its Java application program interface (API) to develop the Android platform for smartphones. Topics include the U.S. fair-use defense, distinctions between Oracle's Java language and the Java API declarations, and Oracle's development of the Java API for a different computing environment.