The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that Google’s use of more than 11,000 lines of code copied from Oracle’s Java program to create the Android operating system constitutes fair use. Experts have said a ...

Can you copyright or patent an API? It's one of the key questions in the Oracle vs Google case, and one with huge consequences. APIs — application programming interfaces — have been around in one form ...

On July 16, Google Maps is going to make it more difficult and expensive to use its API, which could make custom maps that rely on the service less sustainable or even unfeasible for the people who ...

In a key decision that has the potential to rock the software industry, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rejected the jury verdict and found that “Google’s use of the 37 Java API packages ...