APIs are now copyrightable in the US

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APIs are now copyrightable in the US

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(i'm not entirely sure where is the best place on this board to post this...)

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015 ... ht-battle/

I'm not sure what to think of this. Image
But this isn't completely settled yet, hopefully re-implementing / reusing other people's APIs while appropriately crediting the API's creator(s) will at least be considered fair use.

(mozillaZine: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... &t=2944175)
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Copyright made sense when it applied to hand-drawn maps and charts. It makes a lot less sense when applied to digital copying. And it makes no sense at all in this case.
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dslreports: the us supreme court just killed a lot of open source software
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