Supreme Court Sides With Google Over Oracle in Multibillion-Dollar Copyright Battle
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Supreme Court Sides With Google Over Oracle in Multibillion-Dollar Copyright Battle
The high court threw out a lower-court ruling that said Google’s Android infringed Oracle’s copyrights on the Java software platform
By Brent Kendall
Updated April 5, 2021 11:41 am ET
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court on Monday ruled for Alphabet Inc.’s Google in a multibillion-dollar copyright battle with Oracle Corp. over how it built its Android smartphone-operating system.
The court, in a 6-2 opinion by Justice Stephen Breyer, threw out a lower-court ruling for Oracle that said Google’s Android infringed its copyrights on the Java software platform. The high court said Google’s copying of some Java API code was fair use. APIs, or application programming interfaces, are prewritten packages of computer code that allow programs, websites or apps to talk to one another.
“Google’s copying did not violate the copyright law,” Justice Breyer wrote.
Oracle acquired the Java technology when it bought Sun Microsystems Inc. in 2010.
Oracle accused Google of illegally copying more than 11,000 lines of Java API code to develop Android, which runs more than two billion mobile devices world-wide.
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