[GTALUG] Google wins over Oracle in Java API copyright suit

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Russell Reiter via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
| 
| I read that article with interest after I had used a pharmacological/health
| sciences metaphore about copyright in another thread.

Most drugs are "protected" by patent legislation.  Very different from 
copyright.

Perhaps surprisingly, trademark law is very helpful to drug companies 
because what something is called may matter more than what it is.

| You may use other copy protected work under fair use if it adds value to
| the proposition. I think this decision makes that pretty clear.

There are a few tests for US Fair Use.  Do you think that
"transformative" is the same as you meant by "adds value"?

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformation_(law)>