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Supreme Court on APIs and Fair Use

Google didn’t get an answer from the U.S. Supreme Court on whether the Java Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) it copied from Sun Microsystems were copyrightable. But it got just about everything else it could have hoped for in a decision that ended its 11-year copyright clash with Sun's successor, Oracle.

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Google LLC didn’t get an answer from the U.S. Supreme Court on whether the Java Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) it copied from Sun Microsystems were copyrightable. But it got just about everything else it could have hoped for in a sweeping 6-2 decision that ended its 11-year copyright clash with Sun’s successor, Oracle. Google LLC v. Oracle America Inc., 141 S. Ct. 1163 (2021).

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