Re: [Trisquel-users] Court rules that API's are copyrightable
THIS IS GOING TO SHUTDOWN A LOT OF BUSINESS! why? ALL INVOLVES REVENUES. The American court system is going to be overwhelm and hands tie down with law suits and counter court lawsuits because of copyrightable API's issues.before they will declared a final veredict. This matter, the way I look at it, is going to redraw the copyrights laws to favor the powerful corporate. I think this is going to be Google's, Samsung. and many telecom companies "Achilles tendon" injury. As for small telecom business is going to be a calamity.. That is happening, when everyone has set of standards different from each other. Just like bill Gates deliberately copy the MS-DOS on its primitive stages from Xerox. Bill Gates was never summon in court because on those days there was no software copyrights, everything was a lab testing. Corporate espionage at its best.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Court rules that API's are copyrightable
"...most pundits are going to look at this in an overly contrasted way: NDCA said API's aren't copyrightable, and the Appeals Court said they are. That's not what happened here, and if you look at the situation that way, you're making the same kinds of oversimplications that the Appeals Court seems to have erroneously made." Best go actually read the court decision and these things before before opining: http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2014/05/10/oracle-google.html http://faif.us/cast/2014/may/13/0x44/
Re: [Trisquel-users] Court rules that API's are copyrightable
Not to mention it's nonsense. If you can copyright an API, then you can copyright a method. Because that's what an API is: a method. It's a subject of patents, not copyright. I really hope Google doesn't accept this bullshit copyright claim. It could be a massive legal headache for us, and there's no telling when a sensible court will shoot down this bizarre idea that methods are copyrightable if it doesn't happen now.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Court rules that API's are copyrightable
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[Trisquel-users] Court rules that API's are copyrightable
Read here: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/oracles-java-api-code-protected-by-copyright-appeals-court-rules/ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/dangerous-ruling-oracle-v-google-federal-circuit-reverses-sensible-lower-court This is going to be dangerous for free software, especially.
