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Google Vs. Oracle Supreme Court Ruling: 6 Big Things To Know In a 6-2 landmark Supreme Court ruling Monday, Justice Stephen Breyer said that Google’s use of the Java API code was “fair use.” Here’s a look at the high-stakes 11-year legal-battle between Oracle and Google that was centered on whether the Java APIs used by Google in its Android smartphone platform were copyright protected. By Steven Burke April 05, 2021, 04:49 PM EDT A Victory For Google T...

Google v Oracle: bad news for API developers 06-04-2021 10-01-2017 By leaning on unusual analogies the US Supreme Court has created unsettling precedents for software developers, argues Bill Frankel of Brinks Gilson & Lione. In a 6-2 decision, with Justice Stephen Breyer authoring the majority opinion, the Supreme Court has reversed the Federal Circuit’s decision and found that Google’s use of 11,500 lines of the Java SE Application Programming Interface (API) to tailor its Android platform...

US court issues Google API with Java ruling US Supreme Court rules that specifying an API function call to enable third-party developers to access functionality should not be copyrighted Share this item with your network: By Published: 06 Apr 2021 11:23 The US Supreme Court has handed Google a massive victory in its decade-long fight with Oracle over Java application programming interfaces (APIs). In a blog post in 2019, Google’s chief legal officer, Kent Ward, wrote: “Standardised sof...

Googles use of Java code was fair use, SCOTUS rules in Oracle copyright battle   Google Headquarters in Mountain View, California. Photo from Shutterstock.com. Google did not violate copyright law when it copied a portion of Java programming language for use in its Android platform for smartphones, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday in a 6-2 decision. Justice Stephen G. Breyer wrote the majority opinion holding that Google’s use of the code was fair use. Google copied about 11,500 lines of ...

Attorney E. Joshua Rosenkranz represented Oracle at Supreme Court oral arguments last year. WASHINGTON (CN) — Fair-use doctrine supports Google engineers who copied at least ten of thousands of lines of code when they created the Android mobile operating system, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday.  In a case at once about open-source software and market domination, the 6-2 decision marks an $8.8 billion defeat for Oracle America. The software giant sought the massive damages award after Goo...

Mon, Apr 5th 2021 9:37am — Mike Masnick Its taken over a decade, but the Supreme Court has finally said that Googles copying of the Sun Java API for Android was clearly fair use in a 6-2 ruling (Barrett did not take part since she was not on the Court when the case was heard). The background of this case is actually kind of important to understanding what just happened, so heres a quick(ish) recap. As youll probably know, this case began in 2010 when Oracle, which had just taken over Sun, su...

The Supreme Court Just Sided with Google for Copying Lines of Code. Justice Thomas Went Off. Elura Nanos © Provided by Law & Crime The Supreme Court of the United States handed down a 6-2 opinion in favor of Google on Monday. The case is Google v. Oracle, and it has been pending at the Supreme Court since the fall of 2018. Justice Clarence Thomas (joined by Justice Samuel Alito) dissented, casting Google as something of a cyber-villain that unfairly lifted thousands of line...

The Supreme Court handed a major victory to Google on Monday, siding with the tech titan in its $8 billion copyright clash with Oracle over the Android operating system.

Supreme Court Hands Google a Landmark Win — and Hollywood a Huge Concern Carsten Koall/Getty Images Google CEO Sundar Pichai. In a closely-watched case about computer code, Justice Stephen Breyer warns that copyright enforcement can sometimes lead to "harm to the public" by impeding creativity. Google can let out a huge sigh of relief now that the Supreme Court has saved the tech giant from billions of dollars in damages in a long-lasting lawsuit brought by Oracle over computer code used to ...