Google's Copying Of Oracle's Java SE API Was 'Fair Use', Holds US Supreme Court Share This - x Putting an end to a decade long copyright battle between Google and Oracle, the Supreme Court of United States, held that Google's copying of the Java SE API was a fair use of that material. The court (6:2) noted that the API included only those lines of code that were needed to allow programmers to put their accrued talents to work in a new and transformative program. Oracle had sued Google in 2010 for copyright infringement over this copied computer code. The Federal Circuit court ruled in favour of Oracle and this made the Google approach the Supreme Court.