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The Java APIs that Google used to develop Android were protected by copyright law, a court has ruled -- now Google has defend its moves as "fair use" or potentially pay Oracle billions.

Google trial ruled that the structure of the Java APIs that Oracle was trying to assert can't be copyrighted at all.

In 2006 email thread, Rubin said that Sun owned the intellectual property and brand for Java and that the Java.lang APIs were copyrighted. Over the next several years his thinking changed.

By a 6-2 vote, the nation's highest court held that Google's copying of Oracle's Java API was fair use. The ruling means Google won't have to pay billions of dollars in damages to Oracle.

The Java class libraries, as shipped by Oracle, are a specific implementation of the Java APIs. That means they are protected by copyright, just like all computer code has been since the 1960s.