Re:Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [pdf]
by topicseed on Monday April 05, 2021 @12:26PM
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Is a restaurant menu copyrightable?
Re:Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [pdf]
by anticensor on Monday April 05, 2021 @12:53PM
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Recipes and menu listings are not. The artistic layout of the menu is.
Disclaimer: IANAL
Google took tons of APIs from a platform and implemented them into... a platform.
If you think designing thousands of classes is not substantial that's a very different argument, different from fair use.
Fair use means yes, APIs are copyrightable, but this is transformative use. And, to anyone with a clue in software dev... no it's not.
It's basically like taking someone else's script as-is and shooting a movie from it, and the court deeming this use of a script "fair use".