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Google wins Oracle copyright lawsuit over Android code
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SME Times News Bureau | 28 May, 2016
In a much-awaited decision, a jury in California's Northern District
federal court declared on Friday that Google's use of
copyright-protected code in Android was a fair one and freed the tech
giant of any liability.
Global software major Oracle, which
controls the copyright on the code, had sought $9 billion for the use of
the code, accusing Google of software copyrights infringement,
technology website The Verge reported.
Oracle claimed that it
should receive $475 million in damages in addition to $8.8 billion
relating to "profits apportioned to infringed Java copyrights" and
crushing Java's chance of success in smartphones, tablets and other
products.
The two companies have been at odds over whether Google
improperly used so-called APIs (application programming interfaces)
related to the Java programming language to create its Android operating
system.
Oracle said that Google has not paid the company for its use of Java which was developed by tech company Sun Microsystems acquired by Oracle in 2010.
Back in 2012, the companies took the issue to court but the jury was unable to determine whether Google used Java APIs fairly.
In
April, Oracle CEO Safra Catz and Google's chief executive Sundar Pichai
attended the talks in a court in April for six hours and discussed the
lawsuit that Oracle had filed, however, they failed to make any
settlements.
Google had been denying any wrongdoing and argued
that its use of Java is protected by the legal doctrine of "fair use",
which permits copying in some circumstances.
In 2012, the
companies took the issue to court but the jury was unable to determine
whether Google used Java application programming interfaces (APIs)
fairly.
Both Google's Go and Apple's Swift are licensed in a way
that would close off the possibility of such a suit in the future, the
report added.
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