IT lawyer and digital liberties' advocate Carlo Piana mentions at https://plus.google.com/u/0/115445134403759043734/posts/coVxN3TDcmj https://plus.google.com/u/

IT lawyer and digital liberties' advocate Carlo Piana mentions at https://plus.google.com/u/0/115445134403759043734/posts/coVxN3TDcmj https://plus.google.com/u/0/115445134403759043734/posts/coVx... that such API copyrightability has been largely denied by the SAS v. WPL case that came out today (nice coincidence !) : "[...] neither the functionality of a computer program nor the programming language and the format of data files used in a computer program in order to exploit certain of its functions constitute a form of expression of that program and, as such, [they] are not protected by copyright in computer programs" - http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=122362&pageIndex=0&doclang=EN&mode=lst&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=115060 http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&#38...