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27 May 2016Copyright

Google’s use of Oracle’s Java APIs is fair, says jury

Google has won its latest copyright case with Oracle at the US District Court for the Northern District of California after a jury ruled yesterday that its use of application programming interfaces (APIs) found in Oracle’s Java computer program was fair.

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