Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Oracle and Google are ordered to reveal paid bloggers

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19181172

The demand, made by a US judge, follows an intellectual property battle the firms fought in court.

The judge said he was "concerned" that financial relationships may have influenced analysis published in newspapers and on the net.

He added the information would be useful to an appeal hearing.

The two firms have been given until 17 August to provide the information.

Oracle - which licenses products based on the Java programming language - had pursued a patent and copyright challenge alleging it was owed about $1bn (£640m) in compensation for Google's use of its technologies in the Android system.

But the jury ruled that the patents involved had not been breached, while a judge dismissed the key copyright claim - a decision against which Oracle said it would "vigorously appeal".

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