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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 04 2012 @ 05:56 PM EDT |
I've got a hunch that since reading the EU decision his mind is
seething like these pages...
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- This!! - Authored by: Ed L. on Friday, May 04 2012 @ 08:27 PM EDT
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- That - Authored by: Ed L. on Friday, May 04 2012 @ 08:56 PM EDT
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 04 2012 @ 06:33 PM EDT |
If he rules that APIs are, as a matter of law, copyrightable, then he has
singlehandly destroyed the entire software industry in the United States.
That ruling, by extension, would also pave the way for making databases
copyrightable. Not the data, but the structure.
The field names used in the records of the various tables.
I can see it now, ambulance chasers shaking down every business for copyvio in
the structure of the databases that they use.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: drewbenn on Friday, May 04 2012 @ 07:07 PM EDT |
I think he plans to rule that APIs are not copyrightable. He knows it's a big
issue (lots of money at stake), so expects that ruling to be appealed. If a
higher court reverses his decision, then the jury's decision will apply. Alsup
wants the jury to come to a decision so that, if/when his ruling is overruled,
the case will still be over: if the jury doesn't come to a decision and Alsup's
ruling gets overruled, the entire case would have to be re-tried.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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