“The federal appeals court that handles U.S. intellectual property cases ruled that APIs can be copyrighted, a finding that may have significant consequences for cloud computing, software interoperability and innovation in general. The decision came as part of a ruling in Oracle’s favor in its appeal against Google over the use of Java APIs in Android. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit today overturned an earlier ruling in the Oracle-Google fight over whether or not software application programming interfaces, or APIs, are subject to copyright. Judge William Alsup ruled in Google’s favor in 2012, stating that APIs were purely functional.”
http://readwrite.com/2014/05/09/google-oracle-java-copyright-appeals-court
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