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Isn't this interesting. Effectively Google are saying that they have rights over the design of the API interface. Yet isn't that their argument in the Oracle
by buro9 11y ago
Isn't this interesting.
Effectively Google are saying that they have rights over the design of the API interface.
Yet isn't that their argument in the Oracle Java case, that an API itself isn't a protectable thing?
- teraflop 11y agoNo, this has nothing to do with intellectual property rights. Google is not claiming any legal right to prevent anyone from creating something that looks like Google Maps. They're simply saying that they don't have to give you the Google Maps API for free to do so. Also, this is about a user interface, not an API.