Rehearing Request In Oracle, Rimini Street Copyright Case Denied

Mealey's (March 7, 2018, 1:15 PM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals announced March 2 that it will not revisit a January 2018 ruling that a third-party software support company infringed Oracle USA Inc.’s copyrights when it relied on a single customer license to service other unlicensed customers, rejecting the software support company’s assertion of a circuit split on the question of whether nontaxable costs are authorized by the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 505 (Oracle USA Inc., et al. v. Rimini Street Inc., et al., Nos. 16-16832 & 16-16905, 9th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 5514)....