eWEEK IT LEGAL ANALYSIS: In the end, the court determined that Google had only copied nine lines of code into Android from Java and that the APIs were non-copyrightable. Written by eWEEK content and ...

The US Supreme Court has sided with Google in the search company's long-running legal fight with Oracle, declaring Android could use APIs from the Oracle-owned Java. In Monday's ruling, based on ...

Google has asked the US Supreme Court to review its nine-year copyright dispute with Oracle over the use of Java APIs in Android. Google is asking the Supreme Court to make a decision on two overruled ...

IBM, Microsoft and other tech companies have filed court documents in support of Google ahead of the Supreme Court of the US hearing over whether copyright applies to software application programming ...

What if you owned the copyright on the French language? Or Swahili? That’s essentially the claim Oracle is making when it says it owns the copyright to the Java language and its associated APIs. If ...

The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruled on Monday that Google did not commit copyright infringement when it used 37 Java APIs in its Android mobile operating system without Oracle's ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that Google’s use of more than 11,000 lines of code copied from Oracle’s Java program to create the Android operating system constitutes fair use. Experts have said a ...