US Supreme Court rules for Google over Oracle
US Supreme Court rules for Google over Oracle
Posted Apr 6, 2021 11:44 UTC (Tue) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)In reply to: US Supreme Court rules for Google over Oracle by timrichardson
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Not quite; the court made no decision about whether or not the code in question is copyrightable, merely that fair use would cover the alleged infringements, and thus there's no reason to think about whether or not the code is copyrightable, because either it is, but fair use means no infringement, or it isn't and thus copyright cannot be infringed by Google's actions. Either way round, the result is that Google has obeyed the law.
