1、CRS Legal Sidebar Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress Legal SidebarLegal Sidebari i Google v. Oracle: Supreme Court Rules for Google in Landmark Software Copyright Case May 10, 2021 On April 5, 2021, the Supreme Court issued its highly anticipated decision in Google LLC v. Oracle America
2、 Inc., the culmination of a decade-long software copyright dispute between the two tech giants. Resolving what observers have hailed as the “copyright case of the century,” the Court held in Googles favor, finding that Googles copying of the “declaring code” of the Java SE application programming in
3、terface (API) was a fair use and thus did not infringe Oracles copyright in Java. As a formal matter, the Courts holding was relatively narrow, concluding that Googles copying of certain code from the Java APIwhat the Court characterized as “reimplementation of a user interface”was a fair use under
4、the “case-by-case” balancing of the statutory fair use factors. As a practical matter, however, the Courts decision is likely to have major significance for the software industry, and may also potentially affect fair use for other copyrightable subject mattersuch as art, music, and television. This
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