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 ...

The U.S. Supreme Court said Google's use of a Java API falls under fair use. This decision is the culmination of a long-running legal battle between Google and Oracle and possibly sets a precedent.

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 ...