On January 6, 2020, America witnessed the latest twist in the interminable copyright saga Google v. Oracle.  Over a decade in the making, the Supreme Court agreed in mid-November to resolve the lawsuit once and for all.  But only recently did Google submit its Brief for the Petitioner to the Court.  In the 71-page brief, Google marshaled its best arguments in an attempt to convince the justices to rule in its favor.  The tech giant succeeded only in demonstrating its profound lack of self-awareness.  The case centers on 11,500 lines of code and more than 37 APIs (software interfaces) that Google copied from Oracle's Java program to use in its Android phones — but only after licensing negotiations between the two companies broke down.  After Oracle discovered the unauthorized replication from this party that was once interested in licensing Java, it sued the search engine company for an...(Read Full Post)