On May 9, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued what will likely be a highly influential—and in many ways problematic—ruling on source code copyright, holding that a set of Java ...

Earlier today, the Federal Circuit issued the latest opinion in a long-standing copyright dispute between tech giants Oracle and Google. See Oracle America, Inc. v. Google LLC. This copyright case ...

I am a bit confused here, because I do remember Oracle making an argument that Google was doing the same thing with their own APIs that Oracle did with Java's APIs. In which that Google was not ...

A recent Supreme Court decision has finally put an end to the longstanding fight between Oracle and Google concerning Google’s use of Oracle’s copyrighted Java Application Programming Interfaces (APIs ...

In this long-running dispute that has been previously dubbed “The World Series of IP cases” by the presiding judge, Oracle America Inc. (“Oracle”) accuses Google Inc. (“Google”) of unauthorized use of ...

The ruling that APIs can be copyrighted could make it a lot harder to take advantage of APIs with a direct license With Oracle’s surprise win in federal court today over its Java intellectual property ...

Get ready for another courtroom showdown between Oracle and Google over Java. The heavyweight legal match-up between Oracle and Google has already had some dramatic results: In 2014, a U.S. Court of ...

The scene of the Oracle-Google trial today was more like a computer science classroom than a courtroom as the witnesses explained the inner workings of Java and APIs. Mark Reinhold, Oracle Java ...

Oracle has updated its recently filed Google Java lawsuit to include allegations that the search giant directly copied its code in its implementation of Android. The update, filed on Thursday, adds to ...

In a previous Java 101 tutorial, you learned how to better organize your code by declaring reference types (also known as classes and interfaces) as members of other reference types and blocks. I also ...

The Federal Circuit recently decided the case of Oracle America v. Google Inc. To “attract Java developers to build apps for Android,” Google copied the declaring code, but wrote its own implementing ...

The "problem" isn't even set up right. "The original work of authorship" is the Java API source code, which is not a "method of operation". The "method of operation" is the Java API. It is described ...