6 April 2021CopyrightBill Frankel

Google v Oracle: bad news for API developers

In a 6-2 decision, with Justice Stephen Breyer authoring the majority opinion, the Supreme Court has reversed the Federal Circuit’s decision and found that Google’s use of 11,500 lines of the Java SE Application Programming Interface (API) to tailor its Android platform to smartphone technology was fair use under copyright law.

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