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Re:Jury in Oracle v. Google finds in Google's favour by farcical_tinpot on Thursday May 26, 2016 @05:09PM (#11781631)
It is as ridiculous as it sounds. There is simply no case at all where API use cannot be sensibly argued as fair use. That's why you use an API in the first place........

What privileges would such a copyright provide?

In practice? None.

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Re:Jury in Oracle v. Google finds in Google's favour by jdmichal on Thursday May 26, 2016 @06:19PM (#11782144)
> There is simply no case at all where API use cannot be sensibly argued as fair use.

An API being used by a client and an API being copied by a competitor to be used by those same clients are two completely different situations.

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Re:Jury in Oracle v. Google finds in Google's favour by farcical_tinpot on Thursday May 26, 2016 @07:20PM (#11782507)
Nope, they aren't, or at the very least, the difference between them is as to be indistinguishable. That's what the jury decided here.

Using API and the word 'copied' in the same sentence simply doesn't mean anything.

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