Not a complete victory :-(
Not a complete victory :-(
Posted Apr 5, 2021 16:19 UTC (Mon) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)Parent article: US Supreme Court rules for Google over Oracle
Reading the judgement, I notice they say "assuming that an API is copyrightable ..."
So while Google is fair use, that means that someone else could use the same argument to sue over an API. Okay, case law says they will probably lose.
But it's not settled that APIs are copyrightable or not. If the court had found for Google on that point it would be game over for copyright trolls :-(
Cheers,
Wol
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