White House Sides with Oracle, Tells Supreme Court APIs Are Copyrightable

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Post by dengnan » Wed, May 27, 2015, 8:33 PM UTC

White House Sides with Oracle, Tells Supreme Court APIs Are Copyrightable
arstechnica.com

Re: White House Sides with Oracle, Tells Supreme Court APIs Are Copyrightable

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Post by username3 » Wed, May 27, 2015, 8:55 PM UTC

Every API function name should have to be trademarked instead.

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Post by angersock » Wed, May 27, 2015, 8:56 PM UTC

What can we do? Is there a place we can (as an economic sector) throw money to make this happen?

Fucking hell.

EDIT:

Thanks Obama!

"The Justice Department is weighing in on the hot-button intellectual property dispute between Google and Oracle, telling the Supreme Court that APIs are protected by copyright.

The Obama administration's position means it is siding with Oracle and a federal appeals court that said application programming interfaces are subject to copyright protections. The high court in January asked for the government's views on the closely watched case."

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Post by Splendor » Wed, May 27, 2015, 8:58 PM UTC

This link should probably be changed to point directly to the Ars post: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/white-house-sides...

Re: White House Sides with Oracle, Tells Supreme Court APIs Are Copyrightable

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Post by bch » Wed, May 27, 2015, 8:58 PM UTC

  s/^\([a-zA-Z_]*\)(\(.*\))$/ggl_\1(\2)/  ??

This ruling sounds horrible... very curious to hear point-of-view of people who think otherwise.

Edit: my regexp joke is mangled by markup, but who cares ?

Edit: fixed regexp display (not that it affects joke).

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Post by nastygibbon » Wed, May 27, 2015, 8:58 PM UTC

Can someone give us an ELI5? Pros/Cons etc.

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Post by username3 » Wed, May 27, 2015, 8:58 PM UTC

Naming things is one of the hard things in Computer Science.

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Post by gamesbrainiac » Wed, May 27, 2015, 8:58 PM UTC

What does this mean for android?

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Post by rincebrain » Wed, May 27, 2015, 8:59 PM UTC

It's not obvious from the LWN article, but the reason it says "White House" is that lawyers from the DoJ have filed an Amicus Curiae ("Friend of the Court") brief informing them of their stance on the topic. [1] [2]

[1] - http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/white-house-sides...

[2] - http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/google...