Legally Speaking Google v. Oracle

摘要

Typically, most notable copyright infringement lawsuits involve popular songwriters and musicians, major publishing companies, or the misuse of materials on the Internet. However, technology has added another issue to the already complicated copyright law, which is how to interpret computer programs, specifically the computer language code. According to the U.S. Copyright Office, they identify both Source Code and Object Code as the same when interpreting computer programs that pertains to the “sufficient amount of original authorship in the form of statements or instructions to a computer” (Compendium, 2021).