Category: Seminal
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API: Google v. Oracle

BACKGROUND Google was initially sued by Oracle in 2010 for copyright infringement after Google used Oracle’s application programming interface (“API,” to be defined and discussed in this article) in its Android platform. What is most interesting, and the crux of the lawsuit, is Google’s particular use of the API – Google did not simply copy…
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Cellphone Search Privacy

BACKGROUND The Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution requires that the police obtain a search warrant before searching a person’s property. Property can mean a home, car, computer, or a phone. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be…