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To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Court finds that Googles re-use of code from Oracles Java API constitutes fair use under the Copyright Act On April 5, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court released its decision in  Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc., 1 a long-awaited case addressing the boundaries of the copyright fair use defense as it applies to computer code. This is the first time the Court has addressed fair use in 28 years. It issued a resounding opinion in favor of ...

Share This - x On 5th April 2021 the United States Supreme Court (USSC) finally delivered its verdict on the most keenly watched copyright dispute of this century. USSCs 6-2 decision is a big win for Google as it overturned the 2018 decision of Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit which decided in favour of Oracle. USSC held that Googles use of the Java Application Program Interface was a fair use as a matter of law. Origins of the Dispute The case started in 2010 when Oracle filed a ...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Was it fair for Google to copy 11,500 lines of Oracle’s copyrighted Java Application Programming Interface (API) simply to make it easier for programmers already familiar with Java to develop apps for Google’s Android smartphone without having to learn a new programming language? The Supreme Court answered yes, Google’s copying was a fair use and thus not copyright infringement, thereby ending a ten-year legal battle between the...