From: telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org   
      
   by Steven R. Englund, David Singer, Alison Stein, and Cayman C. Mitchell   
      
   On April 5, 2021, the US Supreme Court decided the long-running and   
   closely-watched case of Google v. Oracle, holding that it was a fair   
   use for Google to copy the "declaring code" from the application   
   program interface (API) of Oracle's Java SE platform when implementing   
   Java for Google's Android operating system. The Court sidestepped the   
   question of whether Oracle's copyright protected such code at all,   
   instead assuming that it did. The Court then conducted a fair use   
   analysis that, depending on one's perspective, was either an "ordinary   
   application of copyright's limiting doctrines," or "wholly   
   inconsistent with the substantial protection Congress gave to computer   
   code." Although the Court went to great lengths to cabin its holding   
   to the very narrow type of code at issue, the decision is sure to   
   feature prominently in fair use analyses in copyright infringement   
   cases in the years to come.   
      
   https://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/copyright/1058802/us-supreme   
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