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To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The Supreme Court’s recent landmark ruling in Google v. Oracle ended a decade-long legal battle between the tech giants, finding that Google’s copying of over 11,000 lines of Oracle’s Sun Java application programming interface (“API”) code was permissible fair use under copyright law. This ruling means that Google won’t have to pay billions of dollars in damages to Oracle. It also has huge implications for the broader soft...

On April 5, 2021, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Google v. Oracle, ruling 6-2 in Google’s favor on the issue of fair use. So ends a decade-plus battle between two tech giants that many viewed as having the potential to reshape how computer programs are written and licensed across the software industry. Google’s win—which is plainly indebted to the amici curiae who persuaded the Court of the policy rationale for a finding of fair use—thrilled those who saw a potential win by O...

IN DEPTH Background In 2005, Google acquired Android and began the creation of its now-famous Android software platform for mobile devices. Google’s plan was to make Android a free and open platform, enabling software developers to build upon it for their respective mobile applications. Sun Microsystems was the original inventor of the Java programming language and Oracle’s predecessor. At the time of Google’s acquisition of Android, many software developers understood and wrote programs ...

Wednesday, April 14, 2021 In a 6–2 decision authored by Justice Breyer, the Supreme Court of the United States reversed the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit’s 2018 ruling that Google’s use of Oracle’s Java application programming interface (API) packages in its Android operating system did not qualify as fair use as a matter of law. Before that Federal Circuit decision could be sent back for a trial on damages for copyright infringement (where it was anticipated tha...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Finding Google’s copying a fair use, the Supreme Court ended Oracle’s decade-long attempt to recover copyright damages.  The battle began between these tech giants when Google designed its Android software platform for mobile devices, such as smartphones.  The platform allows “computer programmers to develop new programs and applications” for Android-based devices.  In designing the mobile platform, Google independently dev...

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 ...

 Oracle v Google decision reflects the reality of how the software industry works, claims Lemley After years of litigation, SCOTUS has ruled that Google’s use of the Sun Java API in Android constituted fair use in a decision that might have been celebrated by large parts of high-tech but which may cause concern in content-heavy creative industries. Returning user? Enter your details below to log into your account. E-Mail Address:

It’s okay to duplicate an API, even if you have to snarf 11,500 lines of somebody else’s code to do it. That’s the gist of the ruling from the United States Supreme Court in the long-running case of Google v. Oracle. Left unanswered is the larger question of whether software is even protected by copyright…

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. In a narrowly drawn, yet significant decision, the Supreme Court reversed the Federal Circuit and ruled that Google LLCs ("Google") copying of some of the Sun Java Application Programming Interface (API) declaring code was a fair use as a matter of law, ending Oracle America Inc.s ("Oracle") infringement claims over Googles use of portions of the Java API code in the Android mobile platform. ...

On 5 April 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court resolved a major copyright dispute that had wound through the federal courts for over a decade. In a 6-2 decision written by Justice Breyer, the...