Legally Speaking: Oracle v. Google: Are APIs Copyrightable?

The article discusses a U.S. intellectual property lawsuit between the computer companies Oracle Corp. and Google Inc. concerning the copyright of application program interfaces, arguing that the May, 2012 ruling in favor of Google will be upheld. Topics include the Java computer programming languag...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 55; no. 11; pp. 25 - 28
Main Author: Samuelson, Pamela
Format: Opinion
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Nov2012
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