Copyrighting Software: Case Likely Heading to Supreme Court

by Dennis Crouch Google v. Oracle (Fed. Cir. 2018) Google has now filed an en banc rehearing petition in its dispute with Oracle over copyrightability of the naming system for an application programming interface — namely Oracle’s Java API that Google copied.  [Oracle Am. v. Google LLC Rehearing Petition] The basic issue here stems from Google’s … Continue reading Copyrighting Software: Case Likely Heading to Supreme Court