Intellectual Property – Quinn Stine

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

August 30, 2013December 27, 2018 hackerscansuckitCopyright, Intellectual Property

In 2010 Oracle America, Inc., filed suit against Google, Inc., in the Northern District of
California (Case No. C 10–03561) (Alsup, J.), and alleged that Google infringed Oracles’
copyright in its Java Application Programming Interface (“API”). The parties and the Court
agreed that everyone was and remains free to program in the Java language itself, and that
Google was free to use the Java language to write its own API. 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 in the Java API (three
percent).

Resale Royalty Right: Redux

May 27, 2013December 29, 2018 hackerscansuckitCopyright, Intellectual Property, International Law

The resale royalty right, otherwise known as droit de suite, originated in France in
the mid-19th century. Since then proponents have sought its addition to the copyright
laws of countries around the world. Recently, interest in the right has seen resurgence.
Proponents have renewed their efforts to justify it in the United States.

Constitutional Copyright Policy Applied to Collage and Appropriation Art in the Digital Age

May 11, 2010December 29, 2018 hackerscansuckitConstitutional Law, Copyright, Intellectual Property

Artists have a long history of drawing on society’s body of learning and knowledge to
animate their imaginations and dreams, often without asking for permission before they
incorporate another’s work into their own. It is a practice that has existed as long as art itself.
Whether the artist use of another’s work consists of creating variations or incorporating salient
aspects of the work, the artist’s goal is usually the effective transformation of the borrowed
pieces into a new work of art.