Us Supreme Court Finds Google Amp 39s Copying Of Oracle Java Api Codea Non Infringing Fair Use News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana
In
Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc., Case No.
18–956, 593 U. S. (2021), the U.S. Supreme Court held
that Google s unauthorized copying of around 11,500 lines of
Oracle s computer code was a fair use and therefore not an
infringement.
Assuming, but expressly not deciding, that Oracle s copied
Java SE program code was copyrightable, the Supreme Court reversed
the Federal Circuit s most recent decision and held that
Google s copying was a permissible fair use. The Supreme
Court s decision placed particular emphasis on the nature of
the copied code, which was part of a user interface and therefore inherently bound together with both the uncopyrightable