ARE Copyright Alert: Supreme Court Holds Google’s Use of Oracle’s Java API Packages Constitutes Fair Use Under 17 U.S.C. § 107

On April 5, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court finally addressed the longstanding dispute between Google and Oracle over Google’s alleged copyright infringement of JAVA’s declaring code, which is a type of software code. In a 6-2 split decision in which Justice Barrett did not participate, the Court (per Justice Breyer) found that Google’s literal copying […]