Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home from Monday, April 5th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, the Supreme Court has ruled on APIs in a way that should make most developers happy,

though they punted on the president blocking people on Twitter.

LG is exiting the smartphone business,

and we already knew that half a billion people's Facebook data was out in the wild, but now we've seen it in the wild and I'll tell you why you should take notice of that.

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

The US Supreme Court has ruled in Google's favor in that big copyright dispute with Oracle

over the use of Java APIs. Basically, with a 6-2 vote, the justices overturned what had

been a big oracle lawsuit victory, quoting CMBC. The case concerned about 12,000 lines of code that Google used to build

Android that were copied from the Java application programming interface

developed by Sun Microsystems which Oracle acquired in 2010.

Oracle sued Google over the use of its code and won its case twice before the

specialized US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The Supreme Court

reversed the Federal Circuit's decision.

Justice Stephen Breyer, who wrote the majority opinion in the case,

reason that Google's use of the code was protected under the copyright doctrine of fair use.

Quote, we reached the conclusion that in this case, where Google re-implemented a user interface,

taking only what was needed to allow users to put their accrued talents to work in a new and transformative program,

Google's copying of the Sun Java API was a fair use of that material as a matter of

law, Briar wrote. Briar was joined by chief justice john roberts

and justices sownia soto mayer

alana kegan niel gorsich and bret cavanaugh justices clairns

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