Google guilty of infringement in Oracle trial; future legal headaches loom(ars technica) [LWN.net]

Google guilty of infringement in Oracle trial; future legal headaches loom(ars technica)

Posted May 8, 2012 2:30 UTC (Tue) by jjs (guest, #10315)
In reply to: Google guilty of infringement in Oracle trial; future legal headaches loom(ars technica) by mikov
Parent article: Google guilty of infringement in Oracle trial; future legal headaches loom (ars technica)

Actually, like all good lawyers, Google had multiple defenses:

1. The APIs aren't copyrightable
2. Even if they are, we didn't copy enough to matter
3. Even if we did, we did it under fair use
4. Even if we didn't meet fair use, Sun had already given us permission via CEO and other statements

Probably others as well.

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