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Updated: Jury rules in favour of Google in Android – Java copyright violation case

Update: A U.S federal jury yesterday concluded a month-long trial between Google and Oracle by ruling that Google did not infringe Oracle’s copyrights in any manner and that the use of 37 Java APIs on Android OS is protected by “fair use”, Wall Street Journal reported 24th May: Oracle has argued that Google took its intellectual property without permissions and made huge profits as a result, in the closing arguments of its $9.3 billion copyright lawsuit against Google, reports Reuters. In the retrial, Google had said it should be able to use Java’s APIs without paying a fee under fair-use. The retrial began on the 30th of March, with Oracle arguing that Google infringed copyrights related to Java when it used 37 Java API packages to create Android. Interestingly, the amount claimed by Oracle is far more than what it paid for the entirety of Sun Microsystems which it purchased for $5.6 billion in 2009, the original creator of Java. Timeline of the case: - On 10 May Oracle argued that "If that code wasn’t in their three billion phones, not one would work", while Google told the jury that Android was ‘built with our engineer’s work’, and that Android was precisely the kind of thing that fair use was intended to encourage. - On 12 May Sun’s former CEO Jonathan Schwartz said that Java was free and that Android had no licensing problem, while Oracle’s lawyer kept suggesting he was a terrible CEO. - On 14 May programmers from…

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