On 06/11/2012 12:37 AM, Rick Moen wrote:
I belive I heard that his holding is that Google wrote or commissioned independent code implementations of all 37, leaving only the question of whether the designs and names of the functions in the reference API packages are covered by copyright. He said they weren't -- which does not strike me as very surprising, given the uncopyrightabilty of names and the idea/expression dichotomy (patent/copyright division). Other than giving clarification that claiming an API is inherently copyrightable isn't going to fly, it doesn't seem likely to cast light on other areas of copyright law. In particular, it cases none on what suffices to create a new work and what is a derivative work.
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