Copyrightability of Java APIs Revisited.

The article looks at U.S. copyright law pertaining to the application program interfaces (APIs) of computer programs. The author discusses the 2014 U.S. Court of Appeals (Federal Circuit) ruling in the case Oracle v. Google which held that software company Oracle's APIs for the Java programming lang...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 58; no. 3; pp. 22 - 25
Autor principal: Samuelson, Pamela
Formato: Opinion
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Mar2015
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