Ars Technica reports
that the US Supreme Court rejected Google's appeal of the Google-Oracle API
copyright dispute. "Despite the high court's inaction on the case, the Google-Oracle legal flap is far from resolved. That's because the appeals court sent the case back to the lower courts to determine whether Google's use of the code in Android—which it no longer uses—constitutes a "fair use." Oracle is seeking $1 billion in damages.
"This is not the end of the road for this case—the Federal Circuit decision
explicitly left open the possibility that the kinds of uses Google made
were permissible under copyright's fair use doctrine," said Charles Duan,
the director of Public Knowledge's patent reform project." (Thanks
to Martin Michlmayr)
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