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Re:Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster... by Aerroon on Thursday October 08, 2020 @07:19PM (#24725010)
>As applied to Java, individual method signatures like min and max might not be copyrightable, but someone had to go in and organize those individual methods into classes, and organize those classes into packages.

An API doesn't require an implementation and copyright is handed out automatically. Could I then write and run a generator that just starts spitting out endless variations of possible APIs (combinations of dictionary words?). Does that mean I would end up holding the copyright for most of the 'common sense' APIs people would want to use for software projects?

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Re:Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster... by dannyw on Thursday October 08, 2020 @07:27PM (#24725054)
No, that doesn't feature sufficient creativity.
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Re:Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster... by imtringued on Friday October 09, 2020 @08:19AM (#24729132)
That's patent law. Copyright law is automatic and will always be granted which is why it's absolutely stupid to add patent law features to copyright.
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