Argument analysis: Justices debate legality of Google’s use of Java interfaces in Android software code

Safiel · 2020-10-09T21:18:48.618Z

Argument analysis: Justices debate legality of Google’s use of Java...

The justices finished up the first week of the new term by finally hearing argument in Google v. Oracle, a case that has been pending at the Supreme Court since the fall of 2018. The high-stakes dispute presents a challenge by Oracle (the current...

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First link is to Scotusblog’s analysis of oral arguments, second link to the Scotusblog record and third link is to the transcript of oral arguments.

Issues : (1) Whether copyright protection extends to a software interface; and (2) whether, as the jury found, the petitioner’s use of a software interface in the context of creating a new computer program constitutes fair use.

I am not going to try to second guess the Supreme Court on what might be the most important case of the term. Whichever way they go, it will have a tremendous impact on the tech sector.

The only thing I am reasonably assured of is that we have a long wait before this case comes down, probably no earlier than March.

Adam · 2020-10-09T22:33:50.578Z

As there is no reference to this in the Constitution there’s no way they should weigh in at all. Thunderdome rules.