Supreme Court Hands Google A Win Over Oracle In Multibillion-Dollar Case
By a 6-to-2 vote, the justices said Google's use of Oracle code did not infringe copyright laws.
by Nina Totenberg
Apr 05, 2021
2 minutes
The U.S. Supreme Court handed Google a major victory Monday in a multi-billion dollar copyright dispute.
By a 6-to-2 vote, the court declared that Google did not infringe on Oracle's copyright when it used a tiny portion of Oracle's computer code lines to create a new system software for smartphones in the early 2000s.
Google used about 11,500 lines of
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