Oracle To High Court: Google’s Java Code Copying Was Egregious Plagiarism

Mealey's (February 13, 2020, 10:36 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals correctly deemed the copying of thousands of lines of Java code by Google LLC to not have been fair use, Oracle America Inc. argues in its Feb. 12 merits respondent brief to the U.S. Supreme Court, calling Google’s actions “clear-cut copyright infringement” and asking the high court to affirm the judgment in its favor (Google LLC v. Oracle America Inc., No. 18-956, U.S. Sup.)....