Google v. Oracle – Copyright Infringement in Developing Technologies
By EsqSocial Corporation 14/04/21
On April 5, 2021, the United States Supreme Court decided the case of Google, LLC v. Oracle America, Inc. in favor of Google by a 6-2 majority, with Barrett not participating. Oracle owns a copyright in Java, a popular computer programming language that arguably has a lot of functional or “useful” features needed by programmers. In order to build a new software platform for Android mobile devices, Google copied roughly 11,500 lines of Java code. This code allowed Google developers to access...
By: Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig PLLC