Google's Copying Of Oracle's Java SE API Was 'Fair Use', Holds US Supreme Court
Putting an end to a decade long copyright battle between Google and Oracle, the Supreme Court of United States, held that Google's copying of the Java SE API was a fair use of that material.The court noted that the API included only those lines of code that were needed to allow programmers to put their accrued talents to work in a new and transformative program.Oracle had sued Google. Putting an end to a decade long copyright battle between Google and Oracle, the Supreme Court of United States, held that Google's copying of the Java SE API was a fair use of that material. Applying the principles of the Court's precedents and Congress' codification of the fair use doctrine to the distinct copyrighted work here, the Court concludes that Google's copying of the API to reimplement a user interface, taking only what was needed to allow users to put their accrued talents to work in a new and transformative program, constituted a fair use of that material as a matter of law. In reaching this result, the Court does not overturn or modify its earlier cases involving fair use The court also said that the Google copied only what was needed to allow programmers to work in a different computing environment without discarding a portion of a familiar programming language.
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