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Originally Posted by pdurrant
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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That was not possible. This was the fourth trial of the case. Oracle won the first one. Google appealed and won the appeal. There the outcome was what you hoped. But then the federal court ruled against it. The supreme court refused to hear the case. So it went back to the second court and the only way left open for google was fair use.