Intellectual Property (IP), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Open Movements (OM) : if APIs are copyrightable whether repurposing portions of those APIs can be done without a license as "fair use"

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Friday, June 3, 2016

The Google/Oracle decision was bad for copyright and bad for software; Ars Technica, 6/2/16

Peter Bright, Ars Technica; The Google/Oracle decision was bad for copyright and bad for software:

"Oracle's long-running lawsuit against Google has raised two contentious questions. The first is whether application programming interfaces (APIs) should be copyrightable at all. The second is whether, if they are copyrightable, repurposing portions of those APIs can be done without a license in the name of "fair use.""