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New Fair Use Guidelines: the Defense Narrows

Creative Law Center

You can't just slap your style on someone else's creative work and call it transformative. Fair use guidelines are evolving. The post New Fair Use Guidelines: the Defense Narrows appeared first on Creative Law Center.

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Copy and Paste – Supreme Court Holds Copying Software Function Calls Was Fair Use

TraskBritt Intellectual Property

The U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision in litigation involving Google’s Android operating system for mobile devices on April 5, 2021. When developing Android, Google had copied the text and format of function calls from Oracle’s Java SE Application Programming Interface (API). This copying enabled programmers already familiar with the Java programming language to easily learn to program for Android, jumpstarting the library of applications available on Google’s platform.