{"id":5000,"date":"2017-02-28T21:10:57","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T21:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sls.gmu.edu\/cpip\/?p=5000"},"modified":"2026-04-09T17:36:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:36:47","slug":"cpips-sandra-aistars-scalia-law-alumnae-urge-federal-circuit-to-protect-creators-and-rein-in-fair-use-in-oracle-v-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ualawip\/2017\/02\/28\/cpips-sandra-aistars-scalia-law-alumnae-urge-federal-circuit-to-protect-creators-and-rein-in-fair-use-in-oracle-v-google\/","title":{"rendered":"[Archived Post] CPIP\u2019s Sandra Aistars & Scalia Law Alumnae Urge Federal Circuit to Protect Creators and Rein In Fair Use in Oracle v. Google"},"content":{"rendered":"

On February 17, 2017, CPIP Senior Scholar Sandra Aistars<\/a> filed an amicus brief<\/a> in Oracle v. Google<\/em>, a copyright case currently before the Federal Circuit. Prof. Aistars worked in conjunction with Scalia Law alumnae Antigone Peyton<\/a> and Jennifer Aktins<\/a> of Cloudigy Law<\/a> and third-year law student Rebecca Cusey<\/a> to file the brief on behalf of 13 intellectual property scholars, including CPIP\u2019s Matthew Barblan, Devlin Hartline, Sean O\u2019Connor, Eric Priest, and Mark Schultz.<\/p>\n

The amici urge the Federal Circuit to find that Google\u2019s for-profit, verbatim copying of thousands of lines of Oracle\u2019s copyrighted code was not fair use. They note that an overly broad application of the fair use defense \u201cthreatens the fundamental protections of copyright law,\u201d and they argue that \u201cthe application of fair use in this case must be faithful to the underlying purposes of both copyright law and the fair use defense.\u201d The amici point out that there would be \u201csignificant negative ramifications for all authors\u201d if the Federal Circuit were to excuse Google\u2019s copying of Oracle\u2019s creative work for the purpose \u201cof creating a competing commercial product.\u201d<\/p>\n

The amici conclude: \u201cExpanding the fair use defense to excuse appropriation of software code for commercial gain will harm both creators and the public, as creators will have less incentive to develop new software. The public will not be well-served by policy that slows down the creative advancement of software. Nor will the public be well-served by an application of fair use that will gut copyright protection for other creative works by excusing a purely commercial copying of a creative work that harms the market for the original or its derivatives.\u201d<\/p>\n

To read the amicus brief, please click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On February 17, 2017, CPIP Senior Scholar Sandra Aistars filed an amicus brief in Oracle v. Google, a copyright case currently before the Federal Circuit. Prof. Aistars worked in conjunction with Scalia Law alumnae Antigone Peyton and Jennifer Aktins of Cloudigy Law and third-year law student Rebecca Cusey to file the brief on behalf of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3627,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[337,543,551,625,711],"class_list":["post-5000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyright","category-uncategorized","tag-copyright-2","tag-fair-use","tag-federal-circuit","tag-google","tag-intellectual-property"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ualawip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ualawip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ualawip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ualawip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3627"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ualawip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5000"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ualawip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16792,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ualawip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000\/revisions\/16792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ualawip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ualawip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ualawip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}