API Copyrights Revisited: Deliberating on the main arguments in recent sets of briefs filed in support of Google's U.S. Supreme Court petition.

The article discusses the American technology company Google's legal briefs in a U.S. Supreme Court petition to review lower courts' judgments in lawsuits concerning application program interfaces (APIs) copyright law. An overview of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's (CAFC's) rulin...

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Publicado en:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 62; no. 7; pp. 20 - 23
Autor principal:	Samuelson, Pamela
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Association for Computing Machinery Jul2019
Materias:	Application program interfaces Copyright lawsuits United States. Supreme Court Petitions Google Inc. Legal briefs Legal judgments United States. Court of Appeals (Federal Circuit) United States
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Sumario:	The article discusses the American technology company Google's legal briefs in a U.S. Supreme Court petition to review lower courts' judgments in lawsuits concerning application program interfaces (APIs) copyright law. An overview of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's (CAFC's) ruling on copyright protection for the use of Java API by Google is provided.