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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 of 11,500 lines of declaring code from Java SE for use in Google’s Android platform, was fair use. Having recently reviewed the history of the fair use defense in copyright infringement cases, we now turn to the case itself. Background of Google v. OracleBefore Sun Microsystems (now… Source link

Wednesday, April 14, 2021 In a 6–2 decision authored by Justice Breyer, the Supreme Court of the United States reversed the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit’s 2018 ruling that Google’s use of Oracle’s Java application programming interface (API) packages in its Android operating system did not qualify as fair use as a matter of law. Before that Federal Circuit decision could be sent… Source link

Finding Google’s copying a fair use, the Supreme Court ended Oracle’s decade-long attempt to recover copyright damages.  The battle began between these tech giants when Google designed its Android software platform for mobile devices, such as smartphones.  The platform allows “computer programmers to develop new programs and applications” for Android-based devices.  In designing the mobile platform, Google independently developed most of the code but copied what the parties… Source link

After eleven years of litigation, two jury trials, and multiple appeals, on April 5, 2021, Google LLC prevailed in its defense of Oracle America, Inc.’s copyright infringement claims over Google’s use of Java API declaring code in early versions of the Android smartphone platform. In a 6-2 decision (Justice Barrett did not take part in the consideration or decision of the case), the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the Federal Circuit’s ruling, sidestepping the question of… Source link

Google zz/John Nacion/STAR MAX/IPx Thus spoke Zarathustra.1 Well, at least thus spoke the U.S. Supreme Court in the recent Google v. Oracle decision on the fair use defense in copyright. Here is my jaded take on the decision: • The Justices purported to follow the time-honored path of analysis, which proceeds in the following order: (a) first, purport to apply the four factors in the fair use statute, (b) the first factor is interpreted to ask whether the potentially… Source link

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Chairman (ACCC) Rod Sims said proposed laws that will make Australia the first country in the world to force Google and Facebook to pay for news were fair and critical for the survival of the media industry. FILE PHOTO: Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) Chairman Rod Sims, pictured in Sydney, Australia, October 31, 2016. REUTERS/Jason Reed Sims said he was surprised to hear criticisms from Google about the… Source link

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Chairman (ACCC) Rod Sims said proposed laws that will make Australia the first country in the world to force Google and Facebook to pay for news were fair and critical for the survival of the media industry. FILE PHOTO: Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) Chairman Rod Sims, pictured in Sydney, Australia, October 31, 2016. REUTERS/Jason Reed Sims said he was surprised to hear criticisms from Google about the… Source link

Google search engine rivals have dialled up pressure on the European Commission over the tech giant’s ‘pay-to-play’ choice screen for Android users in Europe — arguing the Google-devised auction has failed to remedy antitrust issues identified by the European Commission more than two years ago. The joint letter to the Commission, which has been signed by Ecosia, DuckDuckGo, Lilo, Qwant and Seznam, requests a trilateral meeting between the EU executive, Google, and the five… Source link