Oracle v. Google: Are APIs Copyrightable?

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Citation: Pamela Samuelson (2012) Oracle v. Google: Are APIs Copyrightable?. Communications of the ACM (RSS)
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Download: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2171447
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Summary

Summary of first phase of g Oracle v. Google, recounting some software interface legal history, more detailed version of which in author's The Strange Odyssey of Software Interfaces and Intellectual Property Law.

Also notes May 2012 EU ruling for interoperability in SAS Institute vs. World Programming Language.