Written by: Alyssa Christian, Associate Editor If Google’s search engine could judge its users’ searches, before Monday, it definitely would have cringed at the question of whether application programming interface (API) codes are protected by copyright.  That is because Google copied 11,500 lines of Oracle’s Java Program code to create its Android platform.  Oracle, claiming that the lines of its API codes were protected by copyright, sued Google in the hopes of an $8 billion reward.  On April 5, 2021, the Supreme Court of the United States finally decided the long-anticipated case between the two companies, and Oracle will not be getting the billions.[1] The Copyright Act limits the monopoly…