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...
| Published in: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 58; no. 3; pp. 22 - 25 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Mar2015
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