We proceed to some cases in which the court's concern is the interpretation of statutes. Copyright and Fair Use 18-956 Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc. (04/05/2021) (supremecourt.gov) In intellectual property, this session will be remembered for its decision in the procedurally complicated Google v. Oracle. Even that name is resonant: it suggests a legal battle of corporate giants of King Kong versus Godzilla proportions. I wrote about this case in this blog in October, and I refer those readers who might want background to that discussion . It was obvious by the time the case was argued last fall that there were two ways Google could win: either it could convince the judges that application programming interfaces (APIs) were not copyrightable, OR it could persuade them that this use of the Java API (now owned by Oracle) is a fair use even if the copyright exists. At argument, Stephen Breyer made a fascinating observation. He compared the Java API...