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Ending a struggle between two tech titans stretching over more than a decade, the Supreme Court held in a 6-2 opinion that Google’s copying of key portions of the Application Programming Interface (API) of Oracle’s Java SE software, constituting 11,500 lines of computer code, was fair use. In determining that Google’s copying of the API constituted fair use, the Court, on April 5, reversed a 2018 Federal Circuit decision that held otherwise. The background of the case and the Federal Circuit decision are reported by Tom Carey of our firm in detail
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The Supreme Court of the United States has handed Google an
unequivocal triumph in what has been dubbed ‘the copyright
case of the century . A majority opinion of the Court held
that Google s copying parts of Oracle s Application
Programming Interfaces (APIs) for the Java programming language is
permissible as “fair use” under the Copyright Act.
The dispute between Oracle and Google dates back to 2005 when
Google acquired Android and decided to use the Java programming
language, then owned by Sun Microsystems until it was later
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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 software and tech industries.
While the Supreme Court was presented with two questions– first, whether APIs can be copyrighted and second, whether Google’s use of the Oracle’s Java API constituted fair use– the majority opinion declined to address the question of copyrightability. Recognizing the “rapidly changing technological, economic, and business-related circumstances,” the high court put aside the larger question to instead focus on resolving the dispute at hand, assuming for ar