Why is the Supreme Court decision about Google’s copying of Oracle’s Java API a landmark decision?
The Supreme Court found Google’s use of Java API to be fair use because:
Its use of the Java API was transformative;
The amount of code copied amounted to only a small percentage;
The nature of the work copied was technical and considered non-creative; and
Sun Microsystems, the original owner of the protected work, had little chance of entering the mobile phone market, and as such, the copying of the Java API’s had no adverse market effects.
Read about the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Google v Oracle case.