Techdirt Podcast Episode 75: What Happened At The Oracle Google Trial?
from the fair-use-and-then-some dept
Over the past few weeks, a jury heard the second round of the copyright fight between Oracle and Google over whether Google's use of the Java APIs in Android constituted copyright infringement, or whether it was fair use. In the end, the jury went with fair use. Reporter Sarah Jeong watched the entire trial from the courtroom and joins us on the Techdirt podcast this week to discuss both the legal details and the various oddities of this particular trial.
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Filed Under: apis, copyright, fair use, techdirt podcast
Companies: google, oracle
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You forgot the SavaJe phone
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This is the sort of domain knowledge that lawyers try to specifically remove from a jury of can-you-even-call-them-peers-anymore.
As I've said before, the more informed a person is on a certain topic, the more likely they are to form a pro-truth bias. Being unbiased on almost any topic is not a sign of virtue or open-mindedness; it's a sign of ignorance.
That's applause-worthy.
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