El fallo Google v. Oracle de la Corte Suprema de EE.UU. Su análisis desde la óptica del derecho argentino.

Published date31 May 2021
AuthorMariano Peruzzotti,Juan Carlos Ojam,Santiago Durañona
Law FirmOjam Bullrich Flanzbaum

El pasado 5 de abril, después de casi 11 años disputas judiciales, la Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos resolvió a favor de Google LLC (“Google”) en una causa por infracción al copyright iniciada por Oracle America, INC (“Oracle”). Este fallo presenta aristas sumamente interesantes en cuanto a la validez de la doctrina del fair use en materia de derecho de autor norteamericano aplicable al software.


En el año 2010 Oracle inicia una acción judicial contra Google por considerar que se había infringido sus derechos de propiedad intelectual en el desarrollo de la plataforma de Android al utilizar partes importantes del lenguaje de programación Java (“Java”).


Oracle es titular de los derechos de autor de Java SE, una plataforma informática que utiliza el reconocido Java. En 2005, Google adquirió Android e intentó generar una nueva plataforma de software para dispositivos móviles. A fin de atraer a programadores familiarizados con Java pudiesen trabajar con su nueva plataforma Android, Google copió aproximadamente 11.500 líneas de código del programa Java SE, lo cual representó un 0.4% de toda una herramienta llamada Interfaz de programación de aplicaciones (API) que permite a los programadores recurrir a tareas informáticas pre escritas para su uso en sus propios programas. Vale decir que, la API en cuestión estaba formada por 2.86 millones de líneas de código.


En un fallo dividido, la Corte Suprema de Justicia de los EE.UU. resolvió que Google no había infringido los derechos de...

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