The Supreme Court of the United States has handed Google an unequivocal triumph in what has been dubbed ‘the copyright case of the century'. A majority opinion of the Court held that Google's copying parts of Oracle's Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for the Java programming language is permissible as “fair use” under the Copyright Act. The dispute between Oracle and Google dates back to 2005 when Google acquired Android and decided to use the [...]

ShortDot, a domain name registry company, has announced the launch of .cfd (#ClothingFashionDesign), a specialized generic top-level domain (gTLD) for clothing brands, fashion designers, retailers, influencers, bloggers, consumers and lifestyle ecommerce stores. TLDs were developed in the 1980s and have unique purposes (e.g., .com, commercial; .org, nonprofit organizations; .net, network and internet-related organizations; .edu, educational; .gov, government entities). ShortDot's webpage for registering the new domain states: By providing a memorable, unique, and relevant web address, .CFD offers clothing, [...]

Tessa Schwartz spoke to VentureBeat about how existing intellectual property and patent laws can address the unique challenges presented by artificial intelligence. According to Tessa, there's a tricky issue at the intersection of transparency and patent law due to the "tension between the desire to maintain confidentiality and ownership of data and algorithms and the necessity of making available data inputs and outputs and AI developments to third parties." "If not properly handled, access can result [...]