Get ready for another courtroom showdown between Oracle and Google over Java. The heavyweight legal match-up between Oracle and Google has already had some dramatic results: In 2014, a U.S. Court of ...

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 ...

In a ruling on Monday, the Supreme Court found that Google could legally use elements of Oracle’s Java application programming interface (API) code when building Android. “Google’s copying of the API ...

"Can somebody use another company's property just because it suits them?" That's the question posed by Oracle lawyer Mike Jacobs during the closing arguments in the "copyright phase" of the ongoing ...

Even if most of us can’t travel as we once did, the world is a more accessible place, at least online. Business people may not be attending international conferences or flying around the world for ...

The Supreme Court’s eight justices on Wednesday seemed skeptical of Google’s argument that application programming interfaces (APIs) are not protected by copyright law. The high court was hearing oral ...

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More than a decade ago, Google re-implemented the Java programming language as part of its new Android mobile operating system. Oracle, the owner of Java, then sued Google for copyright infringement ...

The best source for Android OS news. Co-host on the Android Faithful podcast. Nearly 11 years after the dispute began, Google v Oracle seems to have finally come to an end. In a 6-2 decision delivered ...

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 ...

Google is testing a new API that uses machine learning models to offer real-time language translation for inputted text and to make it easier to translate web pages. According to a proposal spotted by ...