Oracle-Google: How open is your API, and did the Supreme Court just open it wider?
For this April 2021 ZDNet news story, Scott called upon three experts in constitutional law to shed light upon whether copying and modifying the API library of commercial software protected by copyright, constitutes infringement of that copyright. The US Supreme Court ruled that week, it did not. Or at least that’s may have been how the ruling was intended to be construed.
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“Yes, the duplicate can be considered a fair use, but it also may not be considered a fair use — it just depends upon all the facts.”
