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Old 05-27-2016, 05:05 AM   #5
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I'll point out that although the decision went the right way, it doesn't seem to have done so for the ideal reason.

"Jurors [...] concluded that Google made fair use of the code under copyright law."

They didn't throw out the case because APIs can't be copyright, but only because they felt that use of the API was fair use.

I would have preferred a result that concluded that the API on its own wasn't copyrightable.
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