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I hope that Judge Alsup rules that APIs are not subject to copyright, as the EU has already ruled. It certainly would be in the public interest to do so!! But
by SlipperySlope 14y ago
I hope that Judge Alsup rules that APIs are not subject to copyright, as the EU has already ruled.
It certainly would be in the public interest to do so!!
But supposing that the Judge rules that APIs are subject to copyright, I expect that a developer boycott of Oracle would soon follow, together with a push to get the US Congress to change copyright law.
- guelo 14y agoOnly Hollywood gets to change copyright law,
- toyg 14y agoLarry Ellison was in "Iron Man", so he's Hollywood.
- fpgeek 14y agoThis may have already been decided (in the direction of APIs not being copyrighted) by Lotus v Borland: http://madisonian.net/2012/05/09/oracle-v-google-digging-deeper/ http://madisonian.net/2012/05/09/oracle-v-google-digging-dee... Note that this a blog post by a very respected IP law expert (cited by the Supreme Court in recent decisions). One detail I find particularly interesting is that, unlike most common summaries which focus on the UI issues, he points out that there was also an API issue at stake in Lotus v Borland: the menu structure was effectively part of the macro programming API.