Oracle has the support of the Trump administration and some big media industry groups in its Supreme Court fight against Google. Here's why they're siding with Oracle.
simply click here to claim your deal and get access to all exclusive Business Insider PRIME content.The 10-year-old dispute is based on Oracle's claim that Google stole a key component of its Java technology to build the Android operating system.
Roughly two dozen other groups, including The Motion Picture Association and the Recording Industry Association of America, have also filed "amicus" briefs backing Oracle. The Trump administration endorsement became controversial.
News Media Alliance, a nonprofit advocacy group that represents more 2,000 news media organizations in the US and internationally"Google's argument would demote certain highly valuable and socially useful works to second-class copyright citizenship. ... Google advocates for an overly formulaic, percentage-based approach to examining the 'amount and substantiality' of the portion of Oracle's computer code that it used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole.
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