Source: https://rctlj.org/2018/11/01/the-fair-use-doctrine-remains-an-issue-in-the-courts-even-for-tech-giants/
Timestamp: 2019-04-21 10:34:54+00:00

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1 T. Randolph Beard et. al., Fair Use in the Digital Age, 65 J. Copyright Soc’y, 1, 23 (2018).
2 17 U.S.C.S. § 107 (LexisNexis 2018).
4 Richard Stim, Fair Use: The Four Factors Courts Consider in a Copyright Infringement Case, NOLO (2018), https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/fair-use-the-four-factors.html.
5 See id.; See also Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc., 510 U.S. 569, 584(1994).
purpose and the market effect.6 However, as technology advanced and became the norm, the courts varied in their decisions with the fair use doctrine.
7 Oracle Am., Inc. v. Google LLC, 886 F.3d 1179, 1186 (Fed. Cir. 2018).
11 Oracle Am., Inc. v. Google Inc., 872 F. Supp. 2d 974 (N.D. Cal. 2012).
12 Oracle Am., Inc. v. Google Inc., 750 F.3d 1339, 1348 (Fed. Cir. 2014).
14 Oracle Am., Inc. v. Google Inc., No. C 10-03561, 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 74931 (N.D. Cal. June 8, 2016).
16 Oracle Am., Inc. v. Google LLC, 886 F.3d 1179, 1211 (Fed. Cir. 2018).
Oracle Am., Inc. v. Google LLC is of great significance. The case depicts evidence that the fair use doctrine needs reform. Specifically, in obtaining more direct and fair rules that are applicable to software. For example, lower courts like the one presented in this case applied fair use differently than the court of appeals here.21 For instance, it should be a form of transformation when Google used a small portion of Oracle’s code and then used its own code.22 Software, as Android stated, is complicated to form.23 Hence, it should be within fair use to use little portions of other software to advance technology at a quicker speed.
Since courts do not focus on the second and third factors, perhaps the doctrine should re-word them more specifically or not include them.24 Lastly, for the fourth factor, the doctrine should be more specific in which types of markets count as competition for software purposes.25 This way, Tech Giants in the future can be more aware before they use another’s software that is not counted as fair use.
21 See id. at 1186.
22 See Oracle, 886 F.3d at 1186; See also id. at 1199.
24 See 17 U.S.C.S. § 107(2-3) (LexisNexis 2018).
25 See id. at (4).
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