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Honestly this stands contrary to almost every principle of fair use (transformative work of different character for the purpose of comment, parody etc.). Googl
by LogicUpgrade 5y ago
Honestly this stands contrary to almost every principle of fair use (transformative work of different character for the purpose of comment, parody etc.).
Google took tons of APIs from a platform and implemented them into... a platform.
If you think designing thousands of classes is not substantial that's a very different argument, different from fair use.
Fair use means yes, APIs are copyrightable, but this is transformative use. And, to anyone with a clue in software dev... no it's not.
It's basically like taking someone else's script as-is and shooting a movie from it, and the court deeming this use of a script "fair use".
- topicseed 5y agoIs a restaurant menu copyrightable?
- anticensor 5y agoRecipes and menu listings are not. The artistic layout of the menu is. Disclaimer: IANAL
- topicseed 5y agoArtistic layout... The formatting?