Five Observations About the Supreme Court’s Decision in Google v. Oracle | Disruptive Competition Project
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Summary:
The software industry issued a collective sigh of relief after this week’s Supreme Court decision in Google v. Oracle finding that fair use allowed Google’s reimplementation in Android of Java declaring code. The Supreme Court’s first fair use decision in over 25 years and first software copyright opinion ever no doubt will be carefully studied by law professors and copyright practitioners alike. Nonetheless, a few preliminary observations about the decision can be made. (See here for an overview of the case and here for the implications of the decision.)
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