To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. 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