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Application Programming Interfaces (API): A Primer and Discussion of Oracle America v. Google

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Copyright Law Committee, American Intellectual Property Law Association

Quinn P. Stine, contributing author, with M. Wagner, S. Van Eichner, M. Graham, S. Greene and J. Joachim. Published by the AIPLA and referenced here only; authorship is shared and the published work belongs to the issuing body.


The parties and the Court agreed that everyone was and remains free to program in the Java language itself. However, while Google took care to provide fresh line-by-line implementations in 97 percent of the Java API, it generally replicated the overall name organization and functionality of 37 packages.

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