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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 23 2012 @ 01:06 PM EDT |
Sony did not try to claim that the SSO of their API/ABI was protected by
copyright. That entire case was about the intermediate copies of the IOS
firmware made by Connectix to reverse engineer the Play Station's functionality.
If Sony had made similar claims about the SSO of the API being protectable by
copyright as Oracle is claiming in this case, the issue would have been answered
and there would be a precedent, but Sony made no such argument and so no
precedent was set on the protectability of the SSO of APIs by copyright.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: DannyB on Wednesday, May 23 2012 @ 01:49 PM EDT |
Your post presupposes and assumes that APIs can even be protected by copyright.
Neither is Shakespeare protected by copyright. Therefore it doesn't matter how
many monkeys you used to create a copy of Shakespeare, even though it is a
precise copy, because it is not eligible for copyright protection.
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The price of freedom is eternal litigation.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 23 2012 @ 02:59 PM EDT |
an API is a concept
look up concept in a dictionary
then think
Manual
Source code
Binary COde
Callng Code
It's all imagination.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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