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> APIs are copywriteable (so says the Supreme Court) The Supreme Court denying cert is not an endorsement of a ruling. No precedent is set. They could complete
by magicalist 10y ago
> APIs are copywriteable (so says the Supreme Court)
The Supreme Court denying cert is not an endorsement of a ruling. No precedent is set. They could completely disagree with the lower court's ruling but not take the case for any number of reasons: there's no split between circuits, so they want to let other opinions develop before taking on a subject, they don't believe the case details are a good test case for the subject (something the FSF argued was the case for this suit), etc.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/certiorari https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/certiorari
- dragonwriter 10y agoThey also may not have taken the case because it was an interlocutory appeal, and the Supreme Court has a strong bias toward taking appeals of final judgements and avoiding interlocutory appeals unless, in addition to a good reason to take the case, there's also a good reason not to let it go to final judgement before taking it. It's still possible that the Supreme Court could take this case and Oracle might go back to losing on copyrightability rendering fair use moot.