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Supreme Court Sides with Google in Landmark Copyright Suit
Author: David A. EinhornDate: June 4, 2021
The U.S. Supreme Court recently held that Google’s inclusion of Oracle’s software code in its Android mobile operating system constituted a fair use under U.S. copyright law. The 6-2 decision in Google LLC v. Oracle America Inc. concludes what had been dubbed the “copyright lawsuit of the decade.”
In 2010, Oracle America, Inc. (Oracle) filed suit against Google Inc. (Google) in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging that Google's unauthorized use of 37 packages of Oracle's Java application programming interface (API packages) in its Android operating system infringed Oracle's patents and copyrights. APIs allow programmers to use the prewritten code to build certain functions into their own programs rather than write their own code to perform those functions from scratch. Although Oracle makes the Java platform freely available to programmers building applications, Oracle charges a licensing fee to those who want to use the APIs in a competing platform or embed them in an electronic device.
May the Taste of Food be Eligible for Copyright Protection?
In Levola Hengelo BV v. Smilde Food BV (Case C-310/17), the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) recently...
SCOTUS Decision in Tech Battle May Reshape Copyright Law
The U.S. Supreme Court Will Have the Final Word in an Epic Legal Battle Between Google and Oracle, Which Could...
Third Circuit Court Affirms Banana Costume Entitled to Copyright Protection
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals Recently Affirmed a District Court Ruling Granting a Preliminary Injunction in a Copyright Infringement...
SCOTUS Adds Pirate Ship Copyright Case to Docket
The U.S. Supreme Court Has Added a Copyright Infringement Case Involving Blackbeard's Pirate Ship to its Docket for Next Term...
