In an important victory for software developers, the Supreme Court ruled today that reimplementing an API is fair use under US copyright law. The Court’s reasoning should apply to all cases where developers reimplement an API, to enable interoperability, or to allow developers to use familiar commands. This resolves years of uncertainty, and will enable more competition and follow-on innovation in software.
This ruling arrives after more than ten years of litigation [...]
When the case reached the Supreme Court, Mozilla filed an amicus brief arguing that APIs should not be copyrightable or, alternatively, reimplementation of APIs should be covered by fair use. The Court took the second of these options
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Posté par antistress (site web personnel) . En réponse au lien Affaire Google/Oracle : pas de copyright empêchant l'utilisation de l'API Java par Google - theverge. Évalué à 4. Dernière modification le 05 avril 2021 à 23:54.
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/04/05/software-innovation-prevails-in-landmark-supreme-court-ruling-in-google-v-oracle/