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Oracle awarded $1.3 billion in copyright suit->

Submitted by vk2
vk2 writes "Oracle awarded $1.3 billion in copyright infringement suit
A federal jury in Oakland delivers the judgment against German business software maker SAP in a case that began in 2007.

Oracle Corp. won a $1.3-billion verdict Tuesday in a lawsuit in which it alleged that German business software maker SAP infringed on the copyright of the Redwood Shores, Calif., company.

The verdict in the high-profile federal court case is one of the largest ever for copyright infringement. The eight-person jury in Oakland awarded the damages one day after the companies presented closing arguments.

Oracle sued SAP in 2007 claiming that SAP's now-defunct U.S. business software unit, TomorrowNow, illegally downloaded Oracle software and documents to support Oracle's customers. SAP bought TomorrowNow in 2005 and closed it in 2008.

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SAP did not contest that it was liable for the infringement, but estimated that it owed $28 million to $41 million to Oracle. Oracle, however, claimed that SAP owed as much as $3 billion."
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1928 Time Traveler Caught On Film? 685

Posted by samzenpus
from the I-hate-time-travel-stories dept.
Many of you have submitted a story about Irish filmmaker George Clarke, who claims to have found a person using a cellphone in the "unused footage" section of the DVD The Circus, a Charlie Chaplin movie filmed in 1928. To me the bigger mystery is how someone who appears to be the offspring of Ram-Man and The Penguin got into a movie in the first place, especially if they were talking to a little metal box on set. Watch the video and decide for yourself.

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