US Supreme Court sides with Google in copyright fight with Oracle

The case has been going on for a decade (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)

The US Supreme Court has sided with Google in an eight billion dollar (£5.7bn) copyright dispute with Oracle over the internet company’s creation of the Android operating system used on most smartphones worldwide.

To create Android, which was released in 2007, Google wrote millions of lines of new computer code. But it also used 11,330 lines of code and an organisation that is part of Oracle’s Java platform.