Google v. Oracle, Supreme Court opinion, April 5, 2021
All briefs in the case are available at the estimable SCOTUSblog. Here are a few that are noteworthy:
- Pamela Samuelson and Catherine Crump, Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc., Brief of 72 Intellectual Property Scholars As Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioner
- Peter Menell, David Nimmer and Shyamkrishna Balganesh., Google LLC v Oracle America Inc., Amicus Brief, Merits Stage, Abstract and Brief
- Brief Amici Curiae of 83 Computer Scientists in Support of Petitioner
Professors Menell and Samuelson have written at length about the issues in the case:
- Peter Menell, Rise of the API Copyright Dead? An Updated Epitaph for Copyright Protection of Network and Functional Features of Computer Software, 31 Harvard Journal of Law & Technology 305 (2018)
- Peter Menell, Against Defibrillating the API Copyright Dead: A Response to Advocates of Copyrightability of Software Functional Specifications, 31 Harvard Journal of Law & Technology 653 (2018)
- Pamela Samuelson and Clark D. Asay, Saving Software’s Fair Use Future, 31 Harvard Journal of Law & Technology 535 (2018)
- Samuelson, Pamela, Staking the Boundaries of Software Copyrights in the Shadow of Patents, 71 Florida L. Rev. 243 (2019)
- Peter Menell, An Epitaph for Traditional Copyright Protection of Network Features of Computer Software, 43 Antitrust Bulletin 651 (1998)