Let Oracle own API's, Justice Dept tells top court in surprise filing
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#2European courts declared APIs to be uncopyrightable.
Re: Let Oracle own API's, Justice Dept tells top court in surprise filing
#3European courts declared APIs to be uncopyrightable.
I wouldn't be surprised if the US tried to sneak copyright for APIs back in through "trade" agreements like TTIP.
Re: Let Oracle own API's, Justice Dept tells top court in surprise filing
#4This advise by the Solicitor General hinges on an interpretation of section 102(b) of the copyright act. That section essentially says that "methods of operation" can't be copyrighted.
The Solicitor General does not understand that APIs are a formalized description of "methods of operation" (page 14). I suggest reading the entire advisory, it's quite frustrating and contradicts itself.
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#5> and likened the Java API’s to Charles Dickens and other literary works
Never, could have I ever predicted to one day see that as an actual excerpt from an article.
By the way, this is a wonderful exercise of effort on our part as a society. Really very important we sort these these nuances out. People may be dying, the poor may be getting poorer, but this is what is important. /s
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#6What happened of Judge Aslop [1]? As a foreigner, he's the only ever positive story I have heard about the American judicial system, since he was in charge of the Google vs Oracle trial, and he reproduced code himself to understand what was so unique about it. In fact, he decided there was only way to code some things, and ruled that the very small method everyone was arguing against can't be patented/copyrighted. And he ruled Oracle's API couldn't be copyrighted. So do this contradict his ruling?
[1] http://www.cnet.com/news/judge-william-alsup-master-of-the-c...
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#9""[Google]'s Section 102(b) argument also suffers from a broader flaw." (this sentence transitions from the Administration's rejection of Google's suggestion that declaring code is inherently more functional and less expressive than implementing code to the DoJ's agreement with Oracle's lawyers on the purpose of Section 102(b))"
That Google would be in the right by copying the declaring code of 27(!) different namespaces is nothing but crazy.
http://www.fosspatents.com/2015/05/us-dept-of-justice-finds-...
Re: Let Oracle own API's, Justice Dept tells top court in surprise filing
#10> and likened the Java API’s to Charles Dickens and other literary works Never, could have I ever predicted to one day see that as an actual excerpt from an article. By the way, this is a wonderful exercise of effort on our part as a society. Really very important we sort these these nuances out. People may be dying, the poor may be getting poorer, but this is what is important. /s
>By the way, this is a wonderful exercise of effort on our part as a society. Really very important we sort these these nuances out. People may be dying, the poor may be getting poorer, but this is what is important. /s
It's sarcastic, I get it, but it is also profoundly stupid. Sorting out intellectual property and ownership is _the_ 21st century problem as we continually move away from the importance of physical objects and towards the importance of pure information.