Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
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Oracle Corp.
received another setback Thursday as a federal judge in San Francisco undermined a central part of the company's multimillion dollar case against Google over its Android software for mobile devices.Oracle had accused Google of copyright infringement in using "application programming interfaces," or APIs, that help Oracle's Java software work effectively. A jury found Google infringed on those APIs on May 7, but it couldn't agree on whether Google was covered under "fair use" protections in U.S. law. Without a fair-use determination, Oracle wasn't able to extract huge sums from Google.Now, U.S. District Judge William Alsup said Google's use of the APIs wasn't covered by copyright law in the first place.[sidebar]The effect of Thursday's ruling is limited because a jury had earlier reached an impasse on the issue of fair use. But the ruling could be important in any appeals.And Oracle said it will appeal the ruling.Android now powers more than 300 million smartphones and tabl...Federal lawmakers proposed a bill Thursday that would give social workers better access to school records in an effort to improve education for foster children.A fed...
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