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Friday, April 9, 2021 In a narrowly drawn, yet significant decision, the Supreme Court reversed the Federal Circuit and ruled that Google LLC’s (“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 Google’s use of portions of the Java API code in the Android mobile platform. ( Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc., No. 18-956, 593 U...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On April 5, 2021, the United States Supreme Court handed down a decision that could have profound implications in the software industry.  It held 6-2 that Google’s copying of 11,500 lines of code from Oracle’s Java SE API in Google’s Android platform was a fair and transformative use The Court pushed the boundaries of the “transformative” test beyond determining whether the use is different than the copyright holder’s int...

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 ...

Googles Copying Of Oracles Java SE API Was Fair Use, Holds US Supreme Court Share This - x Putting an end to a decade long copyright battle between Google and Oracle, the Supreme Court of United States, held that Googles copying of the Java SE API was a fair use of that material. The court (6:2) noted that the API included only those lines of code that were needed to allow programmers to put their accrued talents to work in a new and transformative program. Oracle had sued Google in 2010 for ...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The Supreme Court finally resolved the dispute between Google and Oracle over Google’s copying of 11,500 lines of declaring code from nearly 3 million lines of code from Sun Java API was copyright infringement. Dodging the question of whether such code is even copyrightable, the Supreme Court found that the copying of the code, for the purpose of making Android programming similar to other Java programming, was a fair use. The Supre...

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...

Tuesday, April 6, 2021 On April 5, 2021, the United States Supreme Court issued a significant fair use decision, holding six to two that Google’s copying of 11,500 lines of code from Oracle’s Java SE API in Google’s Android platform was a fair and transformative use.  The Court pushed the boundaries of the “transformative” test beyond determining whether the use is different than the one originally intended by the copyright holder, and in doing so, handed Google a major leg...

3 hours ago The US Supreme Court on April 5 ruled that Google did not act improperly when it copied thousands of lines of code from Oracle’s Java SE platform into its Android OS’s code. The opinion has significant implications for copyright and fair use, so it’s worth exploring in detail. Here’s a breakdown of the ruling. The copied code was fair use: Even though 11,500 lines of code were copied into Android code (which no longer exist in the OS’s code), the court held that the way Go...

It took nine long, argumentative and legally expensive years, but the nasty tussle between Oracle and Google over “fair use” of Java’s application programming interfaces has ended with a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to keep Java APIs in the free domain for software developers. The high court on April 5 ruled 6-2 in favor of Google in the Google v. Oracle case, reversing the ruling of an appeals court and confirming that Google’s copying of the Java API (owned by Oracle through its...

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...