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Today, the Supreme Court of the United States issued the following decision:
Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc., No. 18-956: Petitioner Google LLC developed the Android software platform for smartphone devices, with the goal of it being a free and open platform that would attract software developers – many of which were familiar with the Java programming language – to develop Android-based applications for Android-based smartphones. Google spent three years creating millions of lines of code, including “implementing codes” – a large library of prewritten codes to carry out complex tasks that developers can draw upon by typing in certain shortcut commands. To facilitate the ease by which software developers familiar with Java could utilize the implementing codes created by Google, Google copied approximately 11,500 lines of code from the Java SE program that contained the names given by Java to particular tasks. Oracle, which owns Java, sued Google for copyright infringem
April 6, 2021 Share
The Supreme Court sided Monday with Google in an $8 billion copyright dispute with Oracle over the internet company’s creation of the Android operating system used on most smartphones worldwide.
To create Android, which was released in 2007, Google wrote millions of lines of new computer code. But it also used 11,330 lines of code and an organization that’s part of Oracle’s Java platform.
Google had argued that what it did is long-settled, common practice in the industry, a practice that has been good for technical progress. And it said there is no copyright protection for the purely functional, noncreative computer code it used, something that couldn’t be written another way. But Oracle said Google “committed an egregious act of plagiarism,” and it sued.
Google defeats Oracle in copyright fight at US Supreme Court
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An undated file image shows the company logo at Googleplex, the corporate headquarters complex of Google and its parent company, Alphabet Inc., in Mountain View, California. (Photo by Alex Tai/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
A clash between tech behemoths Google, LLC and Oracle America, Inc. ended Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Google s copying of 11,500 lines of Oracle s code for the Android software platform was permitted under the copyright law s fair use defense.
The 6-2 ruling, written by Justice Stephen Breyer, reversed a decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in a case that originated in federal court in San Francisco.