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Supreme Court: Google's Reuse of Oracle's Java Computer Code Is Fair Use

Supreme Court: Google's Reuse of Oracle's Java Computer Code Is Fair Use Software developers are breathing a sigh of relief. If the court had sided with Oracle, then the ruling may have opened the ...
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U.S. Supreme Court Rules for Google in Landmark Decision Recognizing Fair Use of Computer Code

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 ...
Law

Supreme Court Confronts Whether Computer Code Can Be Copyrighted

The Java APIs, according to Google, are purely functional because the APIs tell Android how to interact with Java code. Google argued that, if APIs were copyrightable, developers would be forced to ...
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Google v. Oracle, Fair Use and the Decreasing Value of Code Over Time

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 ...