Supreme Court won’t weigh in on Oracle-Google API copyright battle (Ars Technica)

Ars Technica reportsthat the US Supreme Court rejected Google's appeal of the Google-Oracle APIcopyright dispute. "Despite the high court's inaction on the case, the Google-Oracle legal flap is far from resolved. That's because the appeals court sent the case back to the lower courts to determine whether Google's use of the code in Android-which it no longer uses-constitutes a "fair use." Oracle is seeking $1 billion in damages."This is not the end of the road for this case-the Federal Circuit decisionexplicitly left open the possibility that the kinds of uses Google madewere permissible under copyright's fair use doctrine," said Charles Duan,the director of Public Knowledge's patent reform project." (Thanksto Martin Michlmayr)