The copyright ability question in this case. Oracle has a copyright to the computer code in java. Right to the functions and oracle cannot leverage the copyright to create patent rights. Under their murder doctrine there is no copyright protection for computer code that is the only way to perform those functions. Java developers have the right to use certain commands to create applications for google, android platforms. To work the commands require google to reduce a set of declarations from java fc. Because there are no substitutes oracle is claiming the exclusive right not merely to what the declaration is saying but to what they do. That is not a copyright, it is a patent right. Reusingtice of interface is critical to commuter software. Reusing the declaration allowed developers to write billions of creative applications that are used by more than a billion people. Those policy questions are almost academic because the issue is not one this court would find fair use. The standard of
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Mr. Goldstein mr. Chief justice may please the court with that copyright ability question in this case and into the computer work that not the patent so that means the public not oracle has the right to function and oracle cannot leverage the copyright there is no copyright protection for computer code to perform those functions here Java Software developers have the right to create applications for the smart android platform but they require google to reuse the exact set of declarations it is intermittently claiming the rights not just to what the declaration says is not a copyright it is a patent right. And in the modern Interoperable Software here reusing to rewrite creative applications that are used more than 1 billion people those policy questions are almost academic not whether this court would find fair use the much narrower question they could find fair use in oracle now regrets the demand that the jury way all the evidence and decide fair use that has no subsidiary findings a
Whether you are watching over zoom, youtube, facebook, twitter, or our webpage, we are delighted to have you with us. We are recording this, as is cspan, so you may find yourself on cspan at some point in the future. We dont know when. Before we turn to aspects of the upcoming term, i want to say a few words about Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg, who died two weeks ago. I first met Justice Ginsburg 37 years ago, when i was a judge there. Judges are randomly assigned to the courts of appeals, and my boss, judge scalia, was on a panel. Justice ginsburg was an extra ordinary woman, and extra ordinary justice, an extraordinary lawyer, and an extra ordinary american. I would like to ask for a brief moment of silence in her honor. Let me introduce our moderator and turn it over to him to introduce our panel and get the discussion underway. Robert barnes got his bachelors degree in journalism from the university of florida. He has been a Washington Post reporter since 1987. He joined the paper to