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• Article | 23/05/2012 Most jurors sided with Google on APIs and 'fair use'

  Most of the jurors in the Oracle v Google trial thought Google's use of 37 Java APIs in Android should be allowed under the doctrine of fair use, one ...
• Article | 23/05/2012 YouTube appeals German content filtering verdict

  YouTube and German music royalty collecting society GEMA have appealed the outcome of a lawsuit filed by GEMA against YouTube, in which a German court...
• Article | 11/05/2012 Megaupload files motion to delay civil suit

  Megaupload filed a motion in federal court on Thursday asking to delay a civil suit filed against the file-sharing site while it prepares a defense fo...
• Article | 8/05/2012 Zynga sues French game publisher for copyright infringement

  Game maker Zynga sued a French competitor, alleging that by using the suffix 'ville' in the name of its game, Kobojo wilfully infringes on its tradema...
• Article | 8/05/2012 Google and Oracle battle over Lindholm, Schwartz testimony

  Oracle and Google have each tried to jettison potentially damaging testimony in their intellectual-property dispute over Android, as a jury deliberate...
• Article | 5/05/2012 After false alarm, no verdict Friday in Oracle Google

  The jury failed to reach a verdict Friday on the copyright issues in Oracle's Java infringement lawsuit against Google and will be given until Monday ...
• Article | 5/05/2012 Oracle wants judge to bar ex-Sun CEO Schwartz's testimony in Google suit

  Oracle has asked a judge to bar Google from using some testimony given by former Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz in the companies' intellectua...
• Article | 5/05/2012 Judge throws out mass John Doe porn copyright lawsuits

  A judge in New York has shot down the attempt of three pornography studios to sue nearly 80 people for allegedly downloading movies on BitTorrent, wit...
• Article | 4/05/2012 Jury may be deadlocked in Oracle-Google trial

  The jury may have reached a deadlock in the copyright phase of Oracle’s intellectual property lawsuit against Google, although the judge cautioned aga...
• Article | 4/05/2012 Lawyers for Oracle and Google tussle over Android profits

  Lawyers for Oracle and Google tussled before the judge Thursday over how much money Google made from Android, a question that will affect how much Goo...
• Article | 4/05/2012 Authors contend Google's book-scanning project hurting millions

  A group representing authors in a copyright case slammed Google in court on Thursday, saying the company's book-scanning project has hurt millions of ...
• Article | 3/05/2012 Does jury question signal infringement finding in Oracle v. Google?

  As the jury deliberates its verdict in the copyright phase of Oracle's lawsuit against Google, both sides are watching for signs from the jury as to w...
• Article | 2/05/2012 Programming languages not copyrightable rules top EU court

  Europe's top court ruled on Wednesday that the functionality of a computer program and the programming language it is written in cannot be protected b...
• Article | 23/04/2012 Negotiations over Megaupload data to start this week

  Negotiations over how to preserve 28 petabytes of data from Megaupload are set to begin on Thursday, according to the file-sharing site's attorney.
• Article | 19/04/2012 Chinese residents charged with selling $100M worth of pirated software

  A U.S. grand jury has charged two residents of China with 46 criminal counts, including infringing software copyrights and illegally exporting technol...