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Comment: 'Fair use' test at heart of $9 billion Google-Oracle copyright trial

By Mike Swift ( May 6, 2016, 20:05 GMT | Comment) -- Google says more than one million Android devices are activated every day worldwide, and there are more than 1.4 billion active Android smartphones, tablets and other devices being used in more than 190 countries. That lucrative mobile business is now going on trial, with Google and Oracle America set to face off in federal court in San Francisco over Oracle's claims that Google infringed its copyright on the Java software language by copying elements into Android.In its 18-year existence, Google has performed three remarkable business tricks that catapulted it from an unknown startup in a Silicon Valley garage in 1998 to one of the world’s most valuable companies....

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