Google Oracle encounters copyright conflict in Supreme Court

According to the Associated Press on the 7th, Google and Oracle clashed in a copyright dispute in the Supreme Court.

　　 The case heard by the Justice on Wednesday is related to the Android operating system created by Google, which is currently used on most smartphones in the world. Google said that in order to create the Android system released in 2007, it wrote millions of lines of new computer code. But it also uses 11,330 lines of code and an organization that belongs to the Oracle Java platform.

　　 Google defended its actions, saying that what it did was a common practice in the industry for a long time, and this approach is conducive to technological progress. But Oracle said that Google "committed abominable plagiarism" and filed a lawsuit seeking more than $8 billion in compensation.

　　 This case has been going on for ten years. When the court of first instance rejected Oracle's copyright claims, Google won the first round, but this ruling was overturned on appeal. Subsequently, the jury sided with Google and called its copying "fair use", but the appeal court disagreed.