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The court made no holding on whether APIs can be copyrighted. "We shall assume, but purely for argument’s sake, that the entire Sun Java API falls
by curt15 6y ago
The court made no holding on whether APIs can be copyrighted.
"We shall assume, but purely for argument’s sake, that the entire Sun Java API falls within the definition of that which can be copy-righted. "
- jkingsbery 6y agoYes, a good point, it does. Breyer's opinion does say the court is arguing that the API is copy-righted, but used under fair use (as opposed to not copy-righted, in which case fair use doesn't make sense). But my point about what seems to be the main distinction making it copy-right-but-fair-use is the declaration vs. implementation concern, a distinction that logically exists (so I think the outcome is correct!), but does not seem to legally exist.
- Daho0n 6y ago>the court is arguing that the API is copy-righted No they specifically omitted saying this.