Creators of Netflix’s ‘The Billion Dollar Code’ on the Battle Over Google Earth
Marta Balaga Based on real events, Netflix miniseries “The Billion Dollar Code” – created by Oliver Ziegenbalg and Robert Thalheim, and set to be released exclusively on Netflix on Thursday – shows the German inventors of 1994 Terravision and their fight to be acknowledged as creators of the Google Earth algorithm. In 2014, Berlin-based ART+COM sued Google for patent infringement, claiming that the system bore remarkable similarities to Google Earth.“ ‘The Social Network’ was told from the perspective of the winner, or the antagonist: Mark Zuckerberg.