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The Supreme Court has ruled that Google's use of Java APIs owned by Oracle is fair use. The lawsuit against Google, which began in August 2010, is now finally over. Since it's been banging around for ...

Google has asked the US Supreme Court to review its nine-year copyright dispute with Oracle over the use of Java APIs in Android. Google is asking the Supreme Court to make a decision on two overruled ...

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 ...

A San Francisco jury has returned verdicts on three of four key questions over copyright issues in the high-profile courtroom trial between Oracle and Google. Neither company won a decisive victory, ...

The U.S. Supreme Court said Google's use of a Java API falls under fair use. This decision is the culmination of a long-running legal battle between Google and Oracle and possibly sets a precedent.

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 ...

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 ...

Google and Oracle have been in legal battle for around a decade about the interoperability of Android’s Java. It’s a battle in which Oracle claimed Google’s use of its Java code for building the ...