Podcast: The Briefing by the IP Law Blog - Andy Warhol's Prince Prints: Not Fair Use!? (Part Two)
The Briefing by the IP Law Blog - Andy Warhol's Prince Prints: Not Fair Use!? (Part Two)
A recent Supreme Court decision has finally put an end to the longstanding fight between Oracle and Google concerning Google’s use of Oracle’s copyrighted Java Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). The Supreme Court’s...more
In this week's podcast of The Briefing from the IP Law Blog, attorneys Josh Escovedo and Scott Hervey discuss an update to the litigation over Andy Warhol's series of portraits of the artist Prince (Andy Warhol Foundation v...more
In this week's episode of the Briefing from the IP Law Blog, Josh Escovedo and Scott Hervey discuss an update to the litigation over Andy Warhol's series of portraits of the artist Prince (Andy Warhol Foundation v Goldsmith)....more
On April 5, 2021, after 10 years of litigation, the U.S. Supreme Court published its decision in the much-watched Google v. Oracle dispute. The Court held that use of certain “declaring code” from the Java API in the Android...more
In a non-precedential Order issued by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit—on remand from the US Supreme Court’s April 2021 decision upholding Google’s fair use defense to Oracle’s copyright infringement claim—the...more
Intellectual property protection for software has long been a concern, both for innovators seeking to protect their work as well as innovators seeking to make use of existing works for further development. The shifting...more
In a decision last month, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals continued its recent trend of narrowing the fair use defense in copyright cases. The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith involved a...more
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...more
It is not an understatement to say that the economy is powered by software. So when a decision comes down from the U.S. Supreme Court on the extent to which software can be owned, it deservingly acquires “landmark case”...more
Court finds that Google's re-use of code from Oracle's Java API constitutes fair use under the Copyright Act - On April 5, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court released its decision in Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc.,1 a...more
On April 5, 2021, the United States Supreme Court held that Google did not infringe on Oracle’s copyrights by copying 11,500 lines of Oracle’s Java SE API code....more
On 5 April 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court resolved a major copyright dispute that had wound through the federal courts for over a decade. In a 6-2 decision written by Justice Breyer, the Supreme Court held that Google’s copying...more
On April 5, 2021, the US Supreme Court held in a 6-2 decision that Google’s copying of computer code from Oracle’s Application Program Interfaces (APIs) into new API’s used in Google’s Android™ operating system was a...more
Earlier this week, the Supreme Court issued a decision in the long-standing copyright battle between technology titans, Google LLC and Oracle America, Inc., Google LLC v. Oracle America Inc. , ruling 6-2 in favor of Google....more
In a closely-watched case, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled 6-2 that Google’s copying of over 11,000 lines of Oracle’s application programming interface (API) code was permissible fair use under copyright law. Writing for...more
On April 5, 2021, the Supreme Court of the United States held that Google’s use of certain Java Application Programming Interfaces (API) in its Android operating system was not copyright infringement and instead constituted...more
Hailed by Google and others as the “copyright case of the decade,” the U.S. Supreme Court issued its long awaited decision in Google LLC.v Oracle America, Inc. The Court sided with Google in deciding that it is “fair use” for...more
The U.S. Supreme Court issued a remarkable opinion in the long-running dispute between Oracle America and Google over Google’s copying of Oracle’s Java SE API for use on the Android platform. ...more
On April 5, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its much-awaited decision in Google LLC v. Oracle America Inc. (No. 18-956), finding that Google’s use of software code was fair use under the U.S. Copyright Act. The Supreme...more
On April 5, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc., holding that Google’s copying of a portion of an Application Programming Interface (API) for Java SE, in which Oracle was presumed to have a...more