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Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Supreme Court: Copying APIs in Software Can Be Fair Use

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

Pillsbury - Internet & Social Media Law Blog

A Short History of the Fair Use Defense in the Software Industry

Last month, the Supreme Court released its much-anticipated decision in Google v. Oracle. 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...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Google v. Oracle: What We Learned from Oral Argument

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On October 7, 2020, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Google v. Oracle, a decade-long battle challenging Oracle’s claim to own copyrights in certain aspects of its Java software platform that Google implemented in Android...more

Sunstein LLP

The Supreme Court Ponders These Questions in Google v. Oracle: Is the Sky Falling? Is JAVA like the QWERTY Keyboard?

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The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on October 7 in Google v. Oracle, which involves a Federal Circuit decision that we have discussed here. The primary question is whether the code of application programming interfaces...more

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