Google, Oracle Java API copyright battle lands at Supreme Court

Posted by BernardSwiss on Oct 10, 2014 6:33 AM EDT
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Google is asking the US Supreme Court to reverse an appeals court ruling that said Oracle's Java API's were protected by copyright.

Google told the justices in a petition this week that assigning copyright to the code—the Application Programming Interfaces that enable programs to talk to one another—sets a dangerous precedent.

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