TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Oct 7, 2020

The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday heard the case of Google v. Oracle, which is testing the copyrightability of computer command structures such as Java. The justices seemed all over the map on software copyrightability, but three of them clearly questioned the appellate court's failure to respect a 2016 jury verdict in favor of Google on fair use, the National Law Journal reports. The justices could uphold the jury verdict or send the case back to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit for reconsideration. The case, dubbed the “World Series of IP” back in 2012 by a federal judge, has long been seen as having the potential to reshape the law of copyright and fair use.