{"id":166502,"date":"2016-05-27T09:29:23","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T07:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=166502"},"modified":"2016-05-27T09:30:40","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T07:30:40","slug":"google-beats-oracle-in-androidjava-copyright-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/166502-google-beats-oracle-in-androidjava-copyright-case.html","title":{"rendered":"Google beats Oracle in Android\/Java copyright case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A jury in the United States has found that Google\u2019s use of Java APIs in Android doesn&#8217;t infringe on Oracle&#8217;s copyrights.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling follows <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/50837-android-does-not-infringe-on-oracle-patents-jury.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>a similar ruling in May 2012<\/strong><\/a> that the Android mobile platform had not infringed on Oracle\u2019s patents.<\/p>\n<p>Oracle said it &#8220;strongly believes that Google developed Android by illegally copying core Java technology to rush into the mobile device market\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe there are numerous grounds for appeal and we plan to bring this case back to the Federal Circuit on appeal,\u201d said Oracle.<\/p>\n<p>Google said the verdict that Android makes fair use of Java APIs represents a win for the Android ecosystem.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on this issue<\/h3>\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<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/101989-android-java-may-infringe-copyright-us-appeals-court.html\"><strong>Android Java may infringe copyright: US appeals court<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A jury in the United States has found that Google\u2019s use of Java APIs in Android doesn&#8217;t infringe on Oracle&#8217;s copyrights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":158089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,397,167,10582,3372],"class_list":["post-166502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-android","tag-google","tag-java","tag-oracle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166502"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166532,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166502\/revisions\/166532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}