{"id":219885,"date":"2021-04-06T05:03:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T02:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/opinion-oracle-takes-strike-three-in-google-legal-battle-but-the-game-will-likely-continue-for-software-developers\/"},"modified":"2021-04-06T05:03:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T02:03:00","slug":"opinion-oracle-takes-strike-three-in-google-legal-battle-but-the-game-will-likely-continue-for-software-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/opinion-oracle-takes-strike-three-in-google-legal-battle-but-the-game-will-likely-continue-for-software-developers\/","title":{"rendered":"#\n  Opinion: Oracle takes strike three in Google legal battle, but the game will likely continue for software developers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3c8a822cb67\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 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href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/opinion-oracle-takes-strike-three-in-google-legal-battle-but-the-game-will-likely-continue-for-software-developers\/#Therese_Poletti\" >Therese Poletti<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#<br \/>\n  Opinion: Oracle takes strike three in Google legal battle, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> will likely continue for software developers<br \/>\n<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"article__subhead\" itemprop=\"alternativeHeadline\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"While_the_fight_over_Java_APIs_and_%E2%80%98fair_use_of_software_establishes_an_important_precedent_it_could_lead_to_many_more_suits_that_will_test_it\"><\/span>\n  While the fight over Java, APIs and \u2018fair use\u2019 of software establishes an important precedent, it could lead to many more suits that will test it<br \/>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"column column--full article__content\">\n<div class=\"article__side\">\n<div class=\"container--sticky not-active\">\n<div class=\"cx--next\">\n              <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"js-article__body\" class=\"article__body article-wrap at16-col16 barrons-article-wrap\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-sbid=\"WP-MKTW-0000221715\">\n<div class=\"barrons-article-ad-wrapper\">\n<div data-track=\"barrons-article-ad-wrap\" class=\"barrons-article-ad sticky_item\">\n<div class=\"barrons-main-article-ad-target sticky_target body_ad\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>       Oracle Corp. and Google have battled in courtrooms for more than a decade about \u201cfair use\u201d of software code, but after Oracle took a third strike from the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, it likely just means the next batter is about to step to the plate.<\/p>\n<p> The complex case was originally filed by Oracle<br \/>\n        ORCL,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/202180826\/composite\" class=\"positive\">+3.27%<\/bg-quote><br \/>\n       in August 2010, months after the company bought Sun Microsystems Inc. for about $5.6 billion, seeking billions of dollars in revenue from Android mobile phones. Among the assets Oracle bought was Sun\u2019s Java programming language, which was originally developed by Sun as free, open-source software. <\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall\">\n       Oracle alleged that Alphabet Inc.\u2019s<br \/>\n        GOOGL,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/202490156\/composite\" class=\"positive\">+4.19%<\/bg-quote><\/p>\n<p>        GOOG,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/205453964\/composite\" class=\"positive\">+4.11%<\/bg-quote><br \/>\n       Google stole <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>lication programming interfaces, or APIs, from Java in developing the Android operating system, while the advertising and search giant argued that the 37 packages of declaring code \u2014 instead of \u201cimplementing code,\u201d which implements the methods and tasks of the program \u2014 should be considered \u201cfair use.\u201d After two previous rulings in Google\u2019s favor were overturned on appeals from Oracle, the U.S. Supreme Court put the final nail in the coffin Monday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>From 2016: Google-Oracle battle isn\u2019t over, but one side holds big advantage<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The entire fight hinged on APIs, and whether programmers would have to pay licensing fees for the ubiquitous pieces of software, leading many legal scholars to attempt to find analogies to describe the software. In the end, Justice Stephen Breyer compared the functions of the APIs to a gas pedal or a keyboard. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe declaring code\u2019s shortcut function is similar to a gas pedal in a car that tells the car to move faster, or the QWERTY keyboard on a typewriter that calls up a certain letter when you press a particular key,\u201d Breyer wrote in the majority opinion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout that copying, programmers would need to learn an entirely new<br \/>system to call up the same tasks,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>These are the types of comparisons that software developers (and other jurists) have been making for years, in hopes that the wonky lawsuit would not upend their industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSoftware programmers have been assuming for decades that this sort of thing was free to reuse,\u201d said Tyler Ochoa, a professor and copyright expert at Santa Clara University\u2019s School of Law. \u201cIn that sense, the Supreme Court preserves the status quo. It would have been much more disruptive to the software industry if they had ruled in Oracle\u2019s favor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>James Gosling, a former Sun Microsystems engineer known as the father of Java, and who now works as a senior engineer at Amazon.com Inc.\u2019s<br \/>\n        AMZN,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/210331248\/composite\" class=\"positive\">+2.08%<\/bg-quote><br \/>\n       AWS, tweeted that \u201csanity has prevailed,\u201d after the ruling was announced. <\/p>\n<div id=\"cx-membership-tile\"><\/div>\n<div data-layout=\"inline\n                \" data-layout-mobile=\"\" class=\"\n          media-object\n          type-InsetTweet\n            inline\n    scope-web|mobileapps\n  article__inset\n          article__inset--type-InsetTweet\n            article__inset--inline\n  \"><\/p>\n<div class=\"dynamic-inset-container article__inset__dynamic\">\n<style>\n            iframe.twitter-tweet {\n                width: 100% !important;\n            }\n        <\/style>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>\n            <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/errcraft\/status\/1379116652025892866\"><\/a>\n            <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The issue is not completely resolved, however. The Supreme Court ruled that the overall issue of fair use in computer programs \u2014 which is how many in the software industry have looked at the use of existing APIs \u2014 will still be determined by courts going forward. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd just as fair use takes account of the market in which scripts and paintings are bought and sold, so too must it consider the realities of how technological works are<br \/>created and disseminated,\u201d the court wrote. \u201cWe do not believe that an approach close to \u2018all or nothing\u2019 would be faithful to the Copyright Act\u2019s overall design.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe court says there is a hierarchy here in terms of the type of protection afforded to computer programs,\u201d said J.\u00a0Michael\u00a0Keyes, a partner and intellectual property attorney at the  law firm Dorsey &amp; Whitney LLP. Instead of resolving an issue around APIs and fair use, Keyes believes that the court may have opened the door to new cases in which companies copy portions of APIs, claiming fair use.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow that the court has blessed Google\u2019s copying of this code, we will see other market participants do likewise, declaring code, or copying different portions of APIs for a transformative purpose,\u201d Keyes said. \u201cI think we will see companies start pushing the envelope, I don\u2019t think this will quell litigation. I think we will see more copying and more lawsuits as a result.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So the divisive argument is not really done, nor have the combatants laid down their weapons entirely. Even after Monday\u2019s ruling, Oracle flatly said in its statement to the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> that Google \u201cstole Java and spent a decade litigating as only a monopolist can,\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> hit that <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/04\/05\/google-will-stop-using-oracle-finance-software-switch-to-sap.html\" class=\"icon none\">Alphabet is dumping Oracle\u2019s financial software for SAP<\/a><br \/>\n        SAP,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/207905606\/composite\" class=\"positive\">+4.81%<\/bg-quote><span>.<\/span><br \/>\n        Both companies ended Monday with their stock at record highs.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of a long, painful battle between the companies, it is not surprising that there is love lost. But for software developers who rely on APIs and other open-source code for their livelihoods, the fight may go on.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"byline article__byline\">\n<p>      <span>By<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"author  hasMenu\" data-scrim='{\"type\":\"author\",\"header\":\"Therese Poletti\",\"subhead\":\"The Wall Street Journal\",\"list\":[]}' itemscope itemprop=\"author\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\">\n<h4 itemprop=\"name\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Therese_Poletti\"><\/span>Therese Poletti<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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