Google v. Oracle, Fair Use and the Decreasing Value of Code Overtime | Pillsbury - Internet & Social Media Law Blog
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Earlier this month, in what many consider the copyright case of the decade, the Supreme Court released its much-anticipated decision in Google v. Oracle. In it, the Court ruled that Google’s copying of 11,500 lines of declaring code from Java SE for use in Google’s Android platform, was fair use. Having recently reviewed the history of the fair use defense in copyright infringement cases, we now turn to the case itself. Background of Google v. Oracle Before Sun Microsystems (now Oracle) created the Java language and platform, ...
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