Volume: 14 Issue: 6
(June 2012)
Keywords:
us
judge
follow
apis
copyright
stretch
euro
court
while
court
justice
european
union
(cjeu
ruled
2
may
application
program
interfaces
While the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled on 2 May that application program interfaces (APIs) generally are not subject to copyrights, a US Judge decided on 31 May that even though Google did not infringe Oracle's Java APIs, it is only the APIs in question that are not eligible for copyright protection.