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It's fairly typical that the court wanted to make the narrowest decision possible. By conclusion that *even under the assumption they _may_ copyrightable, Googl
by vidarh 3y ago
It's fairly typical that the court wanted to make the narrowest decision possible. By conclusion that *even under the assumption they _may_ copyrightable, Google didn't violate copyright they saved themselves the hassle of deciding on the copyright issue.
- nottorp 3y agoIANAL. So basically the assumption language means there is no rule either that APIs are copyrightable or not, yet... Could have been worse i guess.
- vidarh 3y agoWell. There's no Supreme Court ruling on the copyrightability. The Federal Circuit did hold that APIs are copyrightable, and as far as I understand the Supreme Court carefully avoided deciding whether or not they were right about that. So it's not great, as it does leave the Federal Circuit finding that the APIs were copyrightable standing so far, but as you say it could have been worse - it does not have remotely the same weight.