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Oracle v. Google: A High-Stakes Legal Fight for the Software Industry.

The article discusses the U.S. court case Oracle v. Google, which may be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court and which concerns the copyright status of software application programming interfaces (APIs). The author argues that the Supreme Court should hear the case and should overturn a ruling by the U....

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 58; no. 5; pp. 27 - 30
Main Author: Sprigman, Christopher Jon
Format: Opinion
Published: Association for Computing Machinery May2015
Subjects:
Application program interfaces
Copyright
Oracle Corp.
Google Inc.
Copyright infringement
Java programming language
United States
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article discusses the U.S. court case Oracle v. Google, which may be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court and which concerns the copyright status of software application programming interfaces (APIs). The author argues that the Supreme Court should hear the case and should overturn a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit that software APIs are copyrightable. Details on Google's use of the Java programming language are presented.