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Earlier this month, in what many consider the copyright case of the decade, the Supreme Court released its much-anticipated decision in
Google v. Oracle. In it, the Court ruled that Google’s copying of 11,500 lines of declaring code from Java SE for use in Google’s Android platform, was fair use. Having recently reviewed the history of the fair use defense in copyright infringement cases, we now turn to the case itself.
Background of
Google v. Oracle
Before Sun Microsystems (now Oracle) created the Java language and platform, there was not an effective means for an application to run across multiple different operating systems for example, Windows and Mac. Instead, application developers had to rewrite their application for each operating system. Sun Microsystems created the Java computer language and a collection of ready-to-use programs, i.e., modules that developers could incorporate into their own application