TJ wrote: > What are the potential ramifications of the U.S.A. appeals court decision > in Oracle Vs Google, that APIs are copyrightable and the only question now > is whether such use is fair-use?
I wrote a blog post on Saturday about this that might be of interest: http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2014/05/10/oracle-google.html > Could the lawyers amongst us provide some guidance especially as the > decision may affect interpretation of API protection outside of the U.S.A.? As I noted in my blog post, please note that lawyers don't have magic pixie dust that they give them in law school to understand things. The Courts are discussing a matter of public policy. I suggest that non-lawyers should have a say in that too and we should listen to what non-lawyers have to say, too. However, my TL;DR answer is that there is very little to conclude until the fair use trial happens. There are some interesting things in the ruling to read and think about, but since it remands back to the lower court, this isn't definitive precedent. IANAL and TINLA. -- bkuhn
