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• Most jurors sided with Google on APIs and 'fair use'

  By James Niccolai | 23 May, 2012 23:34

  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 of the jurors revealed Wednesday after the trial had ended.

• YouTube appeals German content filtering verdict

  By Loek Essers | 23 May, 2012 00:49

  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 ordered YouTube to inspect the titles of uploaded videos to filter out potentially copyright-infringing content.

• Megaupload files motion to delay civil suit

  By Jeremy Kirk | 11 May, 2012 11:15

  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 for its criminal case.

• Thursday Grok: Oracle v Google — fat lady refuses to sing

  By Andrew Birmingham | 10 May, 2012 09:25

  Google, according to a jury, violated Oracle’s copyright but it hasn’t been able to decide whether Google overstepped the fair use provisions of the law. And we are still waiting for the fat lady to sing. Indeed, she’s just getting warmed up.

• Zynga sues French game publisher for copyright infringement

  By Loek Essers | 08 May, 2012 22:01

  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 trademark rights and is seeking to exploit its social gaming reputation.

• Google and Oracle battle over Lindholm, Schwartz testimony

  By Chris Kanaracus | 08 May, 2012 03:39

  Oracle and Google have each tried to jettison potentially damaging testimony in their intellectual-property dispute over Android, as a jury deliberates over Oracle's copyright allegations and prepares to move on to the patents part of the case.

• After false alarm, no verdict Friday in Oracle Google

  By James Niccolai | 05 May, 2012 07:13

  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 to try to make a decision.

• Oracle wants judge to bar ex-Sun CEO Schwartz's testimony in Google suit

  By Chris Kanaracus | 05 May, 2012 03:44

  Oracle has asked a judge to bar Google from using some testimony given by former Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz in the companies' intellectual-property suit over the Android mobile OS, saying it has "no legal and factual predicate."

• Judge throws out mass John Doe porn copyright lawsuits

  By Grant Gross | 05 May, 2012 02:17

  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, with the judge slamming the studio's efforts to file lawsuits against multiple anonymous defendants.

• Jury may be deadlocked in Oracle-Google trial

  By James Niccolai | 04 May, 2012 09:34

  The jury may have reached a deadlock in the copyright phase of Oracle’s intellectual property lawsuit against Google, although the judge cautioned against jumping to any conclusions.

• Lawyers for Oracle and Google tussle over Android profits

  By James Niccolai | 04 May, 2012 07:11

  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 Google pays in damages if the jury hearing the intellectual property case decides against it.

• Authors contend Google's book-scanning project hurting millions

  By Agam Shah | 04 May, 2012 05:42

  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 authors whose works have been digitized.

• Does jury question signal infringement finding in Oracle v. Google?

  By James Niccolai | 03 May, 2012 04:07

  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 which way it is leaning. On Wednesday it might have given them one.

• Programming languages not copyrightable rules top EU court

  By Jennifer Baker | 02 May, 2012 23:13

  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 by copyright.

• Negotiations over Megaupload data to start this week

  By Jeremy Kirk | 23 April, 2012 15:03

  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.