GOOGLE vs. ORACLE: A Tussle For Copyrightability Of API

The Landmark Decision: Google v. Oracle - A Battle of Code and Copyright

INTRODUCTION:

The supreme court of United States on April 5, 2021 issued its judgement in the case of Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc.¹The usage of application programming interfaces (APIs) and around 11,500 lines of Java code held by Oracle for building Google's early versions of the android operating system was the focal point of the current dispute between the tech titans Google and Oracle. By the time Google switched the Android to a copyright-free engine without the Java source code, it was asserting that the usage was legal and that it fell under the category of fair use. Oracle initially brought the complaint in 2011, alleging that the Java API code violated their patents and copyright. Even while the patent claim was quickly rejected, the copyright claim was not, and the lower court rejected Google's claim of fair use.In response to the federal circuit court's decision, Google