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Attorney E. Joshua Rosenkranz represented Oracle at Supreme Court oral arguments last year. WASHINGTON (CN) — Fair-use doctrine supports Google engineers who copied at least ten of thousands of lines of code when they created the Android mobile operating system, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday.  In a case at once about open-source software and market domination, the 6-2 decision marks an $8.8 billion defeat for Oracle America. The software giant sought the massive damages award after Google used the ubiquitous computer programming language Java without a license to create what is now t...

Mon, Apr 5th 2021 9:37am — Mike Masnick It's taken over a decade, but the Supreme Court has finally said that Google's copying of the Sun Java API for Android was clearly fair use in a 6-2 ruling (Barrett did not take part since she was not on the Court when the case was heard). The background of this case is actually kind of important to understanding what just happened, so here's a quick(ish) recap. As you'll probably know, this case began in 2010 when Oracle, which had just taken over Sun, sued Google for patent infringement. The patent parts were quickly tossed out and what remained wa...

The Supreme Court Just Sided with Google for Copying Lines of Code. Justice Thomas Went Off. Elura Nanos © Provided by Law & Crime The Supreme Court of the United States handed down a 6-2 opinion in favor of Google on Monday. The case is Google v. Oracle, and it has been pending at the Supreme Court since the fall of 2018. Justice Clarence Thomas (joined by Justice Samuel Alito) dissented, casting Google as something of a cyber-villain that unfairly lifted thousands of lines of code from Oracle. Justice Amy Coney Barrett took no part in the case, as it predated her time ...

The Supreme Court handed a major victory to Google on Monday, siding with the tech titan in its $8 billion copyright clash with Oracle over the Android operating system.

Supreme Court Hands Google a Landmark Win — and Hollywood a Huge Concern Carsten Koall/Getty Images Google CEO Sundar Pichai. In a closely-watched case about computer code, Justice Stephen Breyer warns that copyright enforcement can sometimes lead to "harm to the public" by impeding creativity. Google can let out a huge sigh of relief now that the Supreme Court has saved the tech giant from billions of dollars in damages in a long-lasting lawsuit brought by Oracle over computer code used to build the Android operating system.  As for big movie studios, while a copyright dispute about com...