High court sides with Google in copyright fight with Oracle
Jessica Gresko
Washington | Technology companies sighed with relief on Monday (Tuesday AEST) after the US Supreme Court sided with Google in a copyright dispute with Oracle. The high court said Google did nothing wrong in copying code to develop the Android operating system now used on most smartphones.
To create Android, which was released in 2007, Google wrote millions of lines of new computer code. It also used about 11,500 lines of code copyrighted as part of Oracle’s Java platform. Oracle had sued seeking billions.
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