By a 6-2 vote, the nation's highest court held that Google's copying of Oracle's Java API was fair use. The ruling means Google won't have to pay billions of dollars in damages to Oracle.

The Supreme Court has sided with Google in the long-running Java API copyright case known as Oracle v. Google, finding that Google is legally entitled to use elements of Java APIs in its Android code.

In 2019, Google asked the Supreme Court to review Oracle’s long-running lawsuit over whether Android’s usage of Java was fair use. The Supreme Court this morning sided with Google and ...