Supreme Court backs Google in Android copyright battle with Oracle

The US Supreme Court sided with Google Monday its decade-long copyright battle with fellow tech giant Oracle over a batch of software code used in the Android mobile operating system.

In a 6-2 decision, the court ruled that Google had not violated copyright law by using more than 11,000 lines of Oracle code to build the Android software that powers most of the world’s smartphones. The way Google incorporated the code from Oracle’s Java SE computer platform into its Android operating system constitutes what’s called a fair use under federal copyright law, Justice Stephen Breyer wrote in the majority opinion.