Enlarge / Exterior view of a Googleplex building, the corporate headquarters of Google and parent company Alphabet, May 2018. (credit: Getty Images | zphotos) The Supreme Court has sided with Google in its decade-long legal battle with Oracle over the copyright status of application programming interfaces. The ruling means that Google will not owe Oracle […]
Expand /“Everyone understands that APIs, announcing codes, aren’t copyrightable,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor said during Wednesday’s oral arguments. But the majority of her coworkers did not appear convinced. (charge: Paul Marotta/Getty Pictures ) The Supreme Court’s eight justices on Wednesday appeared suspicious of Google’s argument that software programming interfaces (APIs) aren’t protected by copyright legislation. The […]
(charge: Sam Churchill) On Wednesdaythe Supreme Court may hear oral arguments from Oracle v. Google, a landmark event which considers whether application-programming vents could be protected by copyright. We published this article about the situation in ancient 2019, when Google asked the Supreme Court to look at the circumstance. It’s been edited to reflect that […]