Enlarge / A lot of happy developers out there in the world today. (credit: Aurich Lawson) Google’s and Oracle’s argument before the Supreme Court last October left opponents of API copyrights extremely nervous. For the previous decade, Google had been arguing in lower courts that it didn’t infringe copyright law when it re-implemented Java for […]
Expand /“Everyone understands that APIs, announcing codes, aren’t copyrightable,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor said during Wednesday’s oral arguments. But the majority of her coworkers did not appear convinced. (charge: Paul Marotta/Getty Pictures ) The Supreme Court’s eight justices on Wednesday appeared suspicious of Google’s argument that software programming interfaces (APIs) aren’t protected by copyright legislation. The […]
(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 […]