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    Google and Oracle's 'Copyright Case of the Decade' May Go to Supreme Court

    The 'copyright case of the decade' is a $9 billion copyright infringement suit Oracle filed against the search giant, Google, nearly 10 years ago. Google is asking for the Supreme Court to hear the case. Will it happen?
    by Roger Parloff Jun 07, 2019 7 minutes
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    Google calls it the "copyright case of the decade."

    "It" is the $9 billion copyright infringement suit Oracle filed against the search giant nearly 10 years ago. Oracle brought the case in 2010 after Google incorporated 11,500 lines of Oracle's Java code into Google's Android platform for smartphones and tablets. Android has since become the world's most popular operating system, running on more than 2.5 billion devices.

    Google won twice at the U.S. District Court level. But each time, a federal appeals court overturned the verdict, ruling for Oracle. Now, Google is begging the Supreme Court to hear the case, and so are the 175 companies, nonprofits and individuals who have signed 15 friend-of-the-court briefs supporting Google's plea.

    Ultimately, it may be the nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court who determine the outcome of the copyright case between Oracle and Google.MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty

    Here's the pressing issue: How much protection do copyright laws give to application program interfaces, or APIs? That might sound arcane, but these interfaces are omnipresent in software today. They form the junctions between all the different software applications developed by various companies and independent developers that must

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