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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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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 62; no. 7; pp. 20 - 23
Main Author: Samuelson, Pamela
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Jul2019
Subjects:
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
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary: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.