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Lawyers, scholars, and activists, including EFF, often highlight Section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and Section 230 (originally of the Communications Decency Act) as the legal foundations of the internet. But there’s another, much older, doctrine that’s at least as important: Fair use, which dates back many decades and it codified in law as Section 107 of the

Advertisement Supreme Court Finds Google’s Use of Oracle’s Java Code in Android Operating System to Be Fair Use Thursday, April 8, 2021 On April 5, 2021, the Supreme Court of the United States held that Google’s use of certain Java Application Programming Interfaces (API) in its Android operating system was not copyright infringement and instead constituted fair use of Oracle’s Sun Java API because Google  used “only what was needed to allow users to put their accrued talen...

In a win for innovation, the U.S. Supreme Court has held that Google’s use of certain Java Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) is a lawful fair use. In doing so, the Court reversed the previous rulings by the Federal Circuit and recognized that copyright only promotes innovation and...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Tim Wu, the bard of big tech, has written multiple books about the rise and coming fall of technology monopolies, oligopolies and empires. In The Master Switch, Wu tells the story of how, in the 19 th Century, the existing telegraph empire tried to smother telephone technology in its cradle. He continues with how the ascendant, then established, telephone monopoly destroyed rising competition for decades, with tacit support of the gov...

Tuesday, December 15, 2020 Tim Wu, the bard of big tech, has written multiple books about the rise and coming fall of technology monopolies, oligopolies and empires. In The Master Switch, Wu tells the story of how, in the 19 th Century, the existing telegraph empire tried to smother telephone technology in its cradle. He continues with how the ascendant, then established, telephone monopoly destroyed rising competition for decades, with tacit support of the government. Wu’s latest...