If Oracle is screwed I will not be happy because we are still without a ruling what the legal state of classes in a programming language is.

I knew that this case would get into the finer points of Copyright law. Most copyright cases don’t end up here.

“The term “compilation” includes collective works.”

Yep a collective work and a compilation terms overlap with each other. So registering case a compilation is still valid. But once you are arguing limited to collective work you need to provide more authorship information. So the registration documentation for the case is right.

Oracle has just missed including some critical backing documents. Oracle can argue Opps we missed include those and win the 50 as long as the will not disagree with what the jury would have believed.

The information presented to the jury was telling jury that Oracle was the owner. If that does not change the jury was still “legally sufficient evidentiary basis to find for the party” you are not required to present every document in a case to the court if it is still agreeing with what the jury are expected to believe.

Of course the problem remains since Java is a collective work different sections of it are independent works so Google might have stepped on someone’s work by what they did with Android. It just might turn out not to be Oracles.

This is why we need a clearer define of work. Collective works are a pain in but since in advance you don’t have to declare where the break in works are either.