Cross Roads

#MakeMeetingsWork The modern workplace is a dynamic environment that is constantly engaging and requiring much of us. The current challenges that have been fueled by the Covid 19 pandemic have forced us to rethink work and the ways in which we relate to each other. Granted many changes were already taking place where we were beginning to chose remote work over the standard work settings and terms such as telecommuting, telework, work from home, work from anywhere, mobile work, flexible workplace, virtual work and distributed work were becoming more commonplace. The emergence of a language to describe a new way of thinking about work also led to the growth of co-working spaces and a marriage between eateries and offices where people could sip a cup of coffee while finishing off some project on a laptop computer.  So what we have to acknowledge first is that there has been a major shift in thinking and an appreciation of work as a very broad term encompassing many different aspects.

The Facts of the Case as described by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit:   Oracle America Inc. owns a copyright in Java SE, a computer platform that uses the popular Java computer programming language. In 2005 Google acquired Android and sought to build a new software platform for mobile devices. To allow the millions of programmers familiar with the Java programming language to work with its new Android platform, Google copied roughly 11,500 lines of code from the Java SE program. The copied lines are part of a tool called an Application Programming Interface (API). An API allows programmers to call upon pre-written computing tasks for use in their own programs.  The summary of the case goes on to say that it was the purpose of the lower courts to determine whether the owner of the Java SE could copyright the copied lines and whether Google copying constituted a permissible fair use of that material freeing Google from copyright liability.  The case between Google and Oracl