(charge: Sam Churchill)
On Wednesdaythe Supreme Court may hear oral arguments from Oracle v. Google, a landmark event which considers whether application-programming vents could be protected by copyright. We published this article about the situation in ancient 2019, when Google asked the Supreme Court to look at the circumstance. It’s been edited to reflect that the reality the oral arguments would be this week.
On Wednesdaythe Supreme Court will hear oral arguments at among this decade’s most important software copyright choices: the 2018 judgment with an appeals court that Google interrupts Oracle’s copyrights if Google made an independent execution of the Java programming language. More widely, the situation could determine the copyright position of application-programming ports, with enormous consequences for the software market.
An application-programming interface would be the adhesive that holds complicated software systems jointly. Until 2014, it had been widely presumed that nobody may use copyright legislation to limit APIs’ usage –an opinion that encouraged applications interoperability.
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