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    HIGH COURT SIDES WITH GOOGLE IN COPYRIGHT FIGHT WITH ORACLE

    Apr 09, 2021 3 minutes
    Image: Manuel Balce Ceneta

    Technology companies sighed with relief after the Supreme Court sided with Google in a copyright dispute with Oracle. The high court said Google did nothing wrong in copying code to develop the Android operating system now used on most smartphones.

    To create Android, which was released in 2007, Google wrote millions of lines of new computer code. It also used about 11,500 lines of code copyrighted as part of Oracle’s Java platform. Oracle had

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