The "problem" isn't even set up right. "The original work of authorship" is the Java API source code, which is not a "method of operation". The "method of operation" is the Java API. It is described ...

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The ruling that APIs can be copyrighted could make it a lot harder to take advantage of APIs with a direct license With Oracle’s surprise win in federal court today over its Java intellectual property ...

Get ready for another courtroom showdown between Oracle and Google over Java. The heavyweight legal match-up between Oracle and Google has already had some dramatic results: In 2014, a U.S. Court of ...

The Federal Circuit recently decided the case of Oracle America v. Google Inc. To “attract Java developers to build apps for Android,” Google copied the declaring code, but wrote its own implementing ...

The scene of the Oracle-Google trial today was more like a computer science classroom than a courtroom as the witnesses explained the inner workings of Java and APIs. Mark Reinhold, Oracle Java ...