On May 9, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued what will likely be a highly influential—and in many ways problematic—ruling on source code copyright, holding that a set of Java ...

When Google used 37 Java API packages to build the Android operating system a decade ago, did it use "open and free" tools to build a transformative product? Alternatively, did Google simply steal the ...

Oracle’s legal battle to break itself off a chunk of the smartphone market by attacking Android looks dead in the water today, after a federal judge who recently finished presiding over the six-week ...

First trial judge decided it was not copyrightable as a matter of law. Oracle got it overridden on appeal. Second trial jury finds it fair use. How was that overridden on appeal? Can the higher court ...