Decade-long Oracle-Google copyright case heads to top US courtThe decade-old copyright lawsuit filed by Oracle against Silicon Valley rival Google, with massive implications for the software industry, will be debated in the Supreme Court. WASHINGTON - A decade-old legal battle between Silicon Valley giants Oracle and Google over software rights moves to the Supreme Court Wednesday, in a case with enormous implications for copyright in the digital era. But an appeals court in 2018 disagreed, saying the software interface is entitled to copyright protection, prompting Google to take the case to the highest US court. The US government filed a brief supporting Oracle, arguing that copyright cannot be taken away from creators simply because it exists in digital format. Also siding with Oracle, the American Association of Publishers argued that weakening copyright protection would make it more difficult "to create and disseminate original works of authorship."

Source: Bangkok Post October 06, 2020 02:15 UTC