Clash Of The Technology Titans: Google V Oracle

Gooi Yang Shuh summarises the recent US Supreme Court decision in Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc. and considers its relevance to Malaysian copyright laws

In what is widely regarded as one of the most significant decisions on copyright in software, the US Supreme Court recently announced its verdict in the case of Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc. This is the culmination of a long-running dispute between technology giants Google and Oracle, which has been watched closely by many in the tech industry due to the central question which the Supreme Court was tasked to answer: whether or not blocks of codes known as "application programming interfaces" (APIs, for short) are copyrightable, and, if so, the extent to which they can be copied.