Tucker Higgins, CNBC; Supreme Court will hear Google’s appeal in massive copyright suit brought by Oracle
"The Supreme Court said on Friday that it will hear a dispute between tech giants Oracle and Google in a blockbuster case that could lead to billions of dollars in fines and shape copyright law in the internet era.
The
case concerns 11,500 lines of code that Google was accused of copying
from Oracle’s Java programming language. Google deployed the code in
Android, now the most popular mobile operating system in the world.
Oracle sued Google in 2010 alleging that the use of its code in Android
violated copyright law...
Underlying
the legal issues in the case is a technical dispute over the nature of
the code that Google used. Google has said that the code was essentially
functional — akin to copying the placement of keys on a QWERTY
keyboard. Oracle maintains that the code, part of Java’s application
programming interface, or API, is a creative product, “like the chapter
headings and topic sentences of an elaborate literary work.”
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