phil spade
@Phil · 2:42
Oracle vs Google: The copyright case of the century
The back story here is that to create the operating system for the Android smartphone, Google developers used a component called an API of the programming language and development platform Java, of which Oracle owns. With that, Oracle is saying it is owed a lot of money. As you can imagine, the Android phone has sold quite a few number of phones. Now a jury sided with Google initially, but two appeals court decisions have favored Oracle
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 3:57
But it could happen over time. But I do feel that with Google, especially, they already have a bad reputation with Android, with all the malware and software issues they have already. And they do have this sort of reputation that they just have a bad reputation with data to begin with. So it should be interesting. What would this mean for a future Google software?
Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 3:39
Hey, Phil, I could be wrong. I haven't followed this case very closely, but from my understanding of it, let me put it in layman terms. Let's say you write a book and you put it under whatever Copyright protection, and I want to use a portion of that book. I would by law, need your permission to use that section, copy and paste whatever it is your findings are and also attribute that to you. And whatnot right