Google’s Supreme Court copyright victory against Oracle marks the end of era

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🗓️ 9 April 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Google’s United States Supreme Court copyright win against Oracle over the development of the Android operating system was a huge development, with the case spending the past 10 years bouncing around courts in the US. The ruling is significant because it may shed some light on how tech developers can add value to existing coding. Also on the podcast this week: How China’s electronic media is playing a role in increasing the public’s understanding of privacy.

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0:00.0	Welcome back. It's great to have your company again. I'm James Panicki, the host of M-X's weekly podcast covering regulatory affairs.
0:18.5	This week, we can't ignore Google's huge US Supreme Court copyright win
0:23.6	against Oracle over the Android operating system. This case has been going through the courts
0:29.2	for the past 10 years and this week's ruling marks the end of an era and will hopefully
0:35.7	point the way forward for tech developers as they add value to
0:40.2	existing coding. And in just over 10 minutes time, we'll cross to Hong Kong for a chat about how
0:45.9	an annual TV program is having an impact on privacy and data protection standards in China.
0:52.9	It's a fascinating story and our correspondent, Shu Wan,
0:56.3	will be joining us for that very soon.
0:58.7	First up, though, Google's Supreme Court defeat
1:01.6	and what it means.
1:03.0	M-lex's chief global digital risk correspondent
1:05.7	is Mike Swift,
1:07.1	Mike is no stranger to this podcast,
1:09.5	and no stranger indeed to the inside of courtrooms in
1:13.4	Northern California. And I'm pleased to say that Mike is with us now from San Francisco.
1:20.0	Okay, so in just a few words, Mike, tell us firstly what this week's Supreme Court ruling was
1:25.8	all about. Yeah, sure. So most specifically it was about whether
1:30.6	it was legal for Google to copy 37 packets of application programming interface code from the Java
1:39.9	programming language to create Android, which has in, since it was created, become the most
1:48.3	frequently used mobile operating system. So that was really the question at the heart of the
1:54.4	case. And the answer at the heart of that case was that, yes, it is legal, right? I mean, in just a few
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