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To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Court finds that Google's re-use of code from Oracle's Java API constitutes fair use under the Copyright Act On April 5, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court released its decision in  Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc., 1 a long-awaited case addressing the boundaries of the copyright fair use defense as it applies to computer code. This is the first time the Court has addressed fair use in 28 years. It issued a resounding opinion in favor of innovation that dramatically changes how courts will analyze fair use with respect to computer sof...

 Oracle v Google decision reflects the reality of how the software industry works, claims Lemley After years of litigation, SCOTUS has ruled that Google’s use of the Sun Java API in Android constituted fair use in a decision that might have been celebrated by large parts of high-tech but which may cause concern in content-heavy creative industries. Returning user? Enter your details below to log into your account. E-Mail Address:

It’s okay to duplicate an API, even if you have to snarf 11,500 lines of somebody else’s code to do it. That’s the gist of the ruling from the United States Supreme Court in the long-running case of Google v. Oracle. Left unanswered is the larger question of whether software is even protected by copyright…

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. In a narrowly drawn, yet significant decision, the Supreme Court reversed the Federal Circuit and ruled that Google LLC's ("Google") copying of some of the Sun Java Application Programming Interface (API) declaring code was a fair use as a matter of law, ending Oracle America Inc.'s ("Oracle") infringement claims over Google's use of portions of the Java API code in the Android mobile platform. ( Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc., No. 18-956, 593 U.S. ___ (Apr. 5, 2021)).  In reversing th...

On 5 April 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court resolved a major copyright dispute that had wound through the federal courts for over a decade. In a 6-2 decision written by Justice Breyer, the...