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Supreme Court Hands Google a Landmark Win and Hollywood a Huge Concern
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
In a closely-watched case about computer code, Justice Stephen Breyer warns that copyright enforcement can sometimes lead to harm to the public by impeding creativity.
Google can let out a huge sigh of relief now that the Supreme Court has saved the tech giant from billions of dollars in damages in a long-lasting lawsuit brought by Oracle over computer code used to build the Android operating system. As for big movie studios, while a copyright dispute about computer code might not seem like a subject of particular consequence for them, an opinion from Justice Stephen Breyer concluding that Google made fair use of copyrighted material will very likely be discussed for quite some time and be invoked in other contexts. As such, a few lines in particular from today s opinion regarding public benefits and public harms could have many in Hollywood quite t