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It's strange to me that they mentioned Oracle vs Google in the introduction but not the body of the article. It seems like in a lot of the cases involving new
by mrosett 8y ago
It's strange to me that they mentioned Oracle vs Google in the introduction but not the body of the article.
It seems like in a lot of the cases involving new tech take a couple years to get started and then ~5 years to resolve. So we got a ruling about the phone searchers 7 years after the iPhone, a ruling about streaming 6 years after the launch of Napster, and a ruling about "decency" 8 years after the launch of the web.
I wonder what the big issues over the next 10 years will be. Self driving cars? It's a bit tedious to have every prediction about the future reduce to that.
- Scaevolus 8y agoThe Oracle v Google case was interesting at a corporate/technical level, but has less impact on average people than surveillance rulings.
- mrosett 8y agoI agree with respect to many of these cases. But the Waymo case or the Ross Ulbricht case were pretty routine from a legal perspective as I understand it. The Oracle one is establishing novel law about whether or not you can copyright an API.