A partial verdict has been issued in Oracle’s copyright infringement case against Google. The federal jury has determined that Google violated some Java copyrights owned by Oracle while building the Android operating system.
However, the jury was at a deadlock regarding whether Google’s practices fell under the fair use provision, which “allows excerpts of copyrighted work to appear in other creative expressions, such as books, movies and computer software,” reports Businessweek.
Arguing that the verdict has no legal standing without the question of fair use answered, Google is expected to pursue a mistrial.
“The impasse reached Monday in San Francisco hobbles Oracle Corp.’s attempt to extract hundreds of millions of dollars from Google on grounds that the search leader pirated parts of Android from Oracle’s Java programming system,” explains the article.
In a statement, Google said it realizes “that fair use and infringement are two sides of the same coin. The core issue is whether the APIs here are copyrightable, and that’s for the court to decide.”
Oracle’s statement reads: “The overwhelming evidence demonstrated that Google knew it needed a license and that its unauthorized fork of Java in Android shattered Java’s central write once run anywhere principle.”
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