Google’s Copying of APIs Held Transformative and Fair Use
By EsqSocial Corporation 22/06/21
In Google LLC v. Oracle America Inc., the Supreme Court, in a 6–2 decision2 written by Justice Breyer, held that Google’s copying of Oracle’s Java application programming interface (API) naming convention was a fair use as a matter of law. The Court concluded that Google made a “transformative use” of the software and had only…...
By: Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP