HIGH COURT WILL REVIEW WHETHER COPYRIGHT PROTECTION EXTENDS TO SOFTWARE INTERFACE

摘要

Granting certiorari, Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc., 2019 WL 6042317 (U.S. 2019), the United States Supreme Court will review the Federal Circuit's ruling that copyright protection extended to a software interface, i.e., lines of computer code that allowed developers to operate pre-written libraries of code used to perform particular tasks. The software interface, which was part of the application programming interface (API) for a programming language available at no cost, was used to create a smartphone operating system. See Oracle America, Inc. v. Google Inc., 750 F.3d 1339 (Fed. Cir. 2014).