{"id":101989,"date":"2014-05-09T17:44:24","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T15:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=101989"},"modified":"2014-05-09T17:47:48","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T15:47:48","slug":"android-java-may-infringe-copyright-us-appeals-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/101989-android-java-may-infringe-copyright-us-appeals-court.html","title":{"rendered":"Android Java may infringe copyright: US appeals court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. appeals court on Friday ruled that Oracle Corp is entitled to copyright protection over certain parts of the Java programming language in a high profile lawsuit against Google Inc.<\/p>\n<p>The issue, decided by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, is being closely watched by software developers in Silicon Valley.<\/p>\n<p>Google&#8217;s Android operating system is the world&#8217;s best-selling smartphone platform. Oracle sued Google in 2010, claiming that Google had improperly incorporated parts of Java into Android.<\/p>\n<p>A San Francisco federal judge had decided that Oracle could not claim copyright protection on parts of Java, but on Friday a three judge Federal Circuit panel reversed that ruling.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Oracle, Google, and Android<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/84657-china-probes-ibm-oracle-emc-after-snowden-leaks.html\"><strong>China probes IBM, Oracle, EMC after Snowden leaks<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/75797-oracle-plugs-42-holes-in-java-security.html\"><strong>Oracle plugs 42 holes in Java security<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/59223-google-oracle-paid-bloggers-probe-ends.html\"><strong>Google-Oracle paid-bloggers probe ends<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/50837-android-does-not-infringe-on-oracle-patents-jury.html\"><strong>Android does not infringe on Oracle patents: Jury<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A previous ruling that prevented Oracle from claiming copyright protection on parts of Java has been overturned<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340871,"featured_media":97745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,397,167,3372],"class_list":["post-101989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-android","tag-google","tag-oracle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340871"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}