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I hope that Judge Alsup rules that APIs are not subject to copyright, as the EU has already ruled.

It certainly would be in the public interest to do so!!

But supposing that the Judge rules that APIs are subject to copyright, I expect that a developer boycott of Oracle would soon follow, together with a push to get the US Congress to change copyright law.



Only Hollywood gets to change copyright law,


This may have already been decided (in the direction of APIs not being copyrighted) by Lotus v Borland:

http://madisonian.net/2012/05/09/oracle-v-google-digging-dee...

Note that this a blog post by a very respected IP law expert (cited by the Supreme Court in recent decisions). One detail I find particularly interesting is that, unlike most common summaries which focus on the UI issues, he points out that there was also an API issue at stake in Lotus v Borland: the menu structure was effectively part of the macro programming API.


Larry Ellison was in "Iron Man", so he's Hollywood.




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