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Google Vs. Oracle Supreme Court Ruling: 6 Big Things To Know In a 6-2 landmark Supreme Court ruling Monday, Justice Stephen Breyer said that Google’s use of the Java API code was “fair use.” Here’s a look at the high-stakes 11-year legal-battle between Oracle and Google that was centered on whether the Java APIs used by Google in its Android smartphone platform were copyright protected. By Steven Burke April 05, 2021, 04:49 PM EDT A Victory For Google The Supreme Court Monday ruled 6-2 in favor of Google ending an 11-year-old legal battle with Oracle ...

Google v Oracle: bad news for API developers 06-04-2021 10-01-2017 By leaning on unusual analogies the US Supreme Court has created unsettling precedents for software developers, argues Bill Frankel of Brinks Gilson & Lione. In a 6-2 decision, with Justice Stephen Breyer authoring the majority opinion, the Supreme Court has reversed the Federal Circuit’s decision and found that Google’s use of 11,500 lines of the Java SE Application Programming Interface (API) to tailor its Android platform to smartphone technology was fair use under copyright law. As a consequence of this protracted liti...

US court issues Google API with Java ruling US Supreme Court rules that specifying an API function call to enable third-party developers to access functionality should not be copyrighted Share this item with your network: By Published: 06 Apr 2021 11:23 The US Supreme Court has handed Google a massive victory in its decade-long fight with Oracle over Java application programming interfaces (APIs). In a blog post in 2019, Google’s chief legal officer, Kent Ward, wrote: “Standardised software interfaces have driven innovation in software development. They let computer programs interact...

Google's use of Java code was fair use, SCOTUS rules in Oracle copyright battle   Google Headquarters in Mountain View, California. Photo from Shutterstock.com. Google did not violate copyright law when it copied a portion of Java programming language for use in its Android platform for smartphones, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday in a 6-2 decision. Justice Stephen G. Breyer wrote the majority opinion holding that Google’s use of the code was fair use. Google copied about 11,500 lines of code, out of 2.86 million lines, from the Java SE program owned by Oracle America Inc.’s predeces...