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I am not a lawyer, but I believe you cannot even copyright the name of a dish in most cases (trademark is a separate matter). So if you consider the names of di
by chimeracoder 12y ago
I am not a lawyer, but I believe you cannot even copyright the name of a dish in most cases (trademark is a separate matter). So if you consider the names of dishes to be analogous to function names, function names should not fall under copyright in most cases.
- rayiner 12y agoThat was essentially one of the points made by the District Court. The Appellate Court's response is in the "short phrases" part of the opinion. It basically says: while you can't copyright short phrases, you can copyright a larger corpus made up of short phrases (i.e. the whole API).