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... Really? Do we really want it to be possible to copyright API's?

• kaba0 5y ago
  That was not decided in the lawsuit, only that in this case google copy was fair use.
  • nextaccountic 5y ago
    But for fair use to exist there must be copyright, right?
    • kaba0 5y ago
      Yes, and since code is copyrightable, and API is code, the default is that APIs are copyrightable. What was decided that this reuse by Google was fair use (which might give precedent to similar issues, but in itself doesn’t mean that APIs would not be copyrightable)
• pjmlp 5y ago
  Someone had to make the work to create them, they did not ask a genie for them.