US Supreme Court rules for Google over Oracle

US Supreme Court rules for Google over Oracle

because as a matter of law fair use makes them not copyrightable

Are you sure that interpretation is correct? As I understand it, material used under "fair use" is still considered to be under copyright - it's just that that particular use of that copyrighted material is allowed by the law anyway.

For example, I could quote 10 lines from a 1,000 line program in order to analyse it for educational purposes, and that would be "fair use". 100 different people could do that for distinct 10 line segments in a way that covered every line of the program, and they would all be covered by "fair use". But every single line of the program would still be under copyright, and making copies of the entire program for redistribution would still be a breach of copyright with the full force of the legal system behind it.

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