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Re:Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [pdf] by moron4hire on Monday April 05, 2021 @12:56PM (#26701504)
Substantiality was only one factor in the decision. There were lots of others, such as raison d'être of copyright, "promoting the progress of science and art". Because allowing copying of APIs is more important to the "progress of science and art" than the economic impact on the creator of the API, APIs are thusly not copyrightable.
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Re:Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [pdf] by JumpCrisscross on Monday April 05, 2021 @01:22PM (#26701815)
> APIs are thusly not copyrightable

This is NOT what the Court found. At the very top of the Opinion, it says "we assume, for argument’s sake, that the material was copyrightable. But we hold that the copying here at issue nonetheless constituted a fair use."

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Re:Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [pdf] by moron4hire on Monday April 05, 2021 @01:57PM (#26702262)
Fair enough. I had taken that to mean they were assuming a given to then prove the negative.
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