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the Suprempart because it agreed with the appeals court that the Java declarations were copyrightable. At the samthrough application of the fair use doctrine. The tance to comnature of software interfaces and their imcerns” Google was raising—fact that the jury had not yet ruled on fair use was e time, it wrote that “the ime Court taking the case. It did so in petition—were “better addressed” about the functional portant conpor--
another reason the government urged the Supreme Court to not hear the case at that time.the timCourt to weigh in. The stakes are high.Now that the fair use question has been decided, e might finally be right for the Supreme
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