Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google
by hcknwscommenter on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @01:09AM
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Clean room reimplimentation is not considered a derivative work. Derivative works requires actually copying (and then derivatizing).
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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google
by wtallis on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @03:45AM
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> Derivative works requires actually copying
No literal copying of text is required for something to be a derivative work. Transforming a work implementing an API into documentation describing the API would produce a derivative work of that API, if the API is protected by copyright. Transforming that documentation of the API into another implementation of that API would also produce another derived work of the API.