Brave Noise Legal is a proud sponsor of the fourth annual New Media Art and Sound Summit, which features artist Jandek and takes place at the Church of the Friendly Ghost Thursday, June 14th through Sunday, June 17th, 2012.
Other sponsors include Octopart, Epistrophy Arts, Whole Foods, Alamo Drafthouse, Kerbey Lane and Magnolia Cafe.
Church of the Friendly Ghost is a nonprofit cultural arts organization headquartered in Austin that operates under the sponsorship of Salvage Vanguard Theater, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with support from the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin, and the Texas Commission on the Arts.
“Oracle and Google have struck a deal in their ongoing Java dispute which could speed the case along, but with one catch: Oracle has now essentially bet the farm on its claim that Google violated its copyright by cloning its Java application programming interfaces (APIs). The two companies have been battling it out in San Francisco courtroom for weeks now, in a complex case that involves patent and copyright claims along with a novel claim by Oracle that its Java APIs — essentially the technical guidelines that allow two pieces of software to talk to each other — are copyrightable. Oracle has other copyright claims where it says Google flat-out copied the Java code.”
