{"id":8370,"date":"2014-01-24T16:01:17","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T21:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=8370"},"modified":"2014-01-24T16:01:17","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T21:01:17","slug":"api-copyrightability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/24\/api-copyrightability\/","title":{"rendered":"API Copyrightability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fosspatents.com\/2014\/01\/api-copyrightability-to-be-confirmed.html\">Florian Mueller<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.fosspatents.com\/2014\/01\/api-copyrightability-to-be-confirmed.html\"><p>As far as the copyrightability of Oracle&rsquo;s Java API declaring code is concerned, I would go even further: it&rsquo;s <i>practically inconceivable<\/i> that the district court&rsquo;s non-copyrightability holding will be upheld considering that the circuit judges made perfectly clear that District Judge Alsup confused &ldquo;fair use&rdquo; and copyrightability issues and that Google&rsquo;s whole non-copyrightability theory, which Judge Alsup adopted in its entirety, rests on a complete misreading of two key cases (<i>Sega<\/i> and <i>Sony<\/i>).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oleb.net\/blog\/2014\/01\/copyrightable-apis-not-a-good-thing\/\">Ole Begemann<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/oleb.net\/blog\/2014\/01\/copyrightable-apis-not-a-good-thing\/\"><p>What does it even mean to &ldquo;hijack APIs&rdquo;? I can&rsquo;t remember a single case of a large company crushing a small developer solely by copying their innovative API. You don&rsquo;t lure users away from a platform just by offering the same API. You get users for your API by offering a superior platform.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florian Mueller: As far as the copyrightability of Oracle&rsquo;s Java API declaring code is concerned, I would go even further: it&rsquo;s practically inconceivable that the district court&rsquo;s non-copyrightability holding will be upheld considering that the circuit judges made perfectly clear that District Judge Alsup confused &ldquo;fair use&rdquo; and copyrightability issues and that Google&rsquo;s whole non-copyrightability [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[167,51,84,209,736,71],"class_list":["post-8370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-copyright","tag-google","tag-java","tag-legal","tag-oracle","tag-programming"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}