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Obama administration asks U.S. top court to decline Google copyright appeal

May 26, 2015 admin case-involves, copyright-parts, european, federal-appeals, lawrence-hurley, obama, oracle, oracle-corp, san, should-extend, supreme-court, Technology, usa, zurich

By Lawrence Hurley and Dan Levine WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The Obama administration on Tuesday sided against Google Inc and said the U.S. Supreme Court should not hear the company's appeal in a case against Oracle Corp with wide implications for the technology industry, according to a court filing. The case involves how much copyright protection should extend to the Java programing language.

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Silk Road drug site staff member avoids further U.S. prison time

May 26, 2015 creative drug-website, lawrence-hurley, lawyer, oracle, oracle-corp, sentence, should-extend, Technology, thomas-griesa, underground, usa, very-gratifying, york, zurich

By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) – An Australian man who moderated the discussion forums on the underground drug website Silk Road was sentenced to time served on Tuesday after already being in custody for 17 months.

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Charter’s $56 billion Time Warner Cable deal to face U.S. scrutiny

May 26, 2015 admin charter, comcast-corp, diane-bartz, lawrence-hurley, lawyer, long-advocated, oracle, sentence, toward-industry, very-gratifying, viewers-shift, warner-cable, york, zurich

By Malathi Nayak and Diane Bartz NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Charter Communications Inc, seeking to remake the U.S. cable television industry by acquiring larger rival Time Warner Cable Inc for $56 billion, will try to skirt the regulatory obstacles that helped sink Comcast Corp's earlier bid for Time Warner Cable