Google’s antitrust woes mainly stem from its Android mobile operating system, which is used by more than 70% of smartphone users worldwide.Image: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images) Google has asked an appeals court in India to throw out an October antitrust ruling by the Competition Commission of India (CCI), accusing regulators of plagiarizing language from a similar ruling in Europe. The American internet giant cited more than 50 instances of language copied verbatim. Google also objected to… Source link
Read More »Google v. Oracle: Supreme Court Holds Copying of Key Part of Java Software, its API, is Fair Use | Sunstein LLP
Ending a struggle between two tech titans stretching over more than a decade, the Supreme Court held in a 6-2 opinion that Google’s copying of key portions of the Application Programming Interface (API) of Oracle’s Java SE software, constituting 11,500 lines of computer code, was fair use. In determining that Google’s copying of the API constituted fair use, the Court, on April 5, reversed a 2018 Federal Circuit decision that held otherwise. The background of the case and the Federal… Source link
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