The Motion Picture Association, minus Netflix, filed arguments in support of Oracle, the tech giant aiming to punish Google for allegedly infringing computer code to build the Android operating system that's used on more than 2.5 billion mobile devices
: Declarations are like topic sentences while implementing code is akin to the body of paragraphs.
Arguably, the Supreme Court's decision on the issue of scope could have ramifications for Hollywood. When the case gets argued before the justices next month, both sides are likely to employ plenty of metaphors and lean on a body of copyright precedent examining works of authorship like songs and movies. If the Supreme Court adopts a robust merger doctrine, that ruling may one day inform how future courts weigh cases involving everything from alleged script plagiarism to song theft.
On appeal, the Federal Circuit reversed this holding, too, ruling that both Google and Oracle were in the commercial market and that Oracle could indeed show harm even if it wasn't yet in the smart phone business. According to the movie studios, "Unlike purely expressive works, software, by definition, has a functional component that makes it inherently different.
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