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Java API as a whole?
Authored by: hardmath on Thursday, April 19 2012 @ 11:28 AM EDT
Okay, that's pretty close to what Oracle was saying a couple of months ago
(selection and arrangement), but he hasn't ruled yet on copyright protection.
He's just ruled that both parties agree that the jury will not be asked to
decide if the APIs as a whole have the minimal "originality" to be
copyrightable.

Absent some protectable elements (after filtering out the unprotectable ones
that Judge Alsup ruled on), there will be no copyright protection.

Even if Judge Alsup rules that Oracle can legally claim copyright protection on
(say) the hierarchy of 37 package names, which Google has admittedly copied,
Google still has defenses to copyright infringement that the jury will be
required to decide: fair use, laches, etc.


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