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Supreme Court rules in Google’s favor in Oracle copyright case over Android Java code use SHARE In a case with broad implications for copyright law, Alphabet Inc.’s Google LLC is not liable for copyright infringement in the company’s use of Java code in how it was used in the Android operating system, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today. A loss, in this case, would have led to a multibillion-dollar settlement to Oracle Corp., the owner of the Java code in question. The 6-2 decision, with a majority opinion written by Justice Stephen Breyer, throws out a lower c...

Supreme Court sides with Google in copyright battle against Oracle Follow Us Question of the Day The Supreme Court on Monday ruled 6-2 for Google in its years-long copyright fight with Oracle.  At issue were more than 11,000 lines of computer code, which Oracle said Google stole when it was creating its Android operating system. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer wrote the majority opinion that ruled Google’s copying was a “fair use” of Oracle’s computer code, which he said the justices assumed was capable of being copyrighted.  “Several features of Google’s cop...

(Photo by Alexander Pohl/NurPhoto via Getty Images) For over a decade, Google and Oracle have been fighting in court over whether the Android OS broke copyright law by using some computer code from Java. On Monday, the US Supreme Court finally ruled on the matter, and declared that Google’s use of the Java code was fair use.    The ruling is a win not just for Google, but also for software development in general. If the Supreme Court had sided with Oracle, the decision might have sparked a flood of lawsuits targeting apps and programs that have adopted snippets of computer code from othe...