US Supreme Court delivered The decision regarding the consideration of the examination of the trial “Oracle against Google “associated with the use of the Java API in the Android platform. The court of supreme instance fell onto the side of Google and acknowledged that the use of Java API is a character of conscientious use (Fair Use).
Court agreed that Google’s goal was to create another system oriented tasks for another computing environment (smartphones), and the development of the Android platform helped to implement and popularize this goal. History shows that there are various paths in which the re-implementing interface can contribute to the further development of computer programs. Google’s intentions were aimed at achieving such creative progress, the maintenance of which is the main task of copyright.
Recall that in 2012, a judge having programming experience agreed with Google’s position and acknowledged that the forming API tree of the name tree is part of the command structure – a set of characters associated with a specific function. A similar set of teams is interpreted by copyright law as not subject to copyright, since the duplication of the command structure is an indispensable condition for ensuring compatibility and tolerability. Therefore, the identity of rows with declarations and header descriptions of methods does not matter – to implement similar functionality, the forming API names of functions must match, even if the functionality itself is implemented differently. Since there is only one way of expressing an idea or function, then each is waited to use identical declarations, and no one can monopolize such expressions.