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If You Can Copyright an API, What Else Can You Copyright?

  • By Cade Metz |

If Judge William Alsup rules that copyright applies to Oracle’s Java APIs, he would overturn common wisdom in programming circles, potentially exposing many companies and developers who have built software platforms that openly mimic existing APIs. But that’s not all. Such a ruling could shake things up for many other companies across the programming world and beyond.

API: Three Letters That Change Life, the Universe and Even Detroit

  • By Cade Metz |

There was a time when APIs were just a way of building applications for a desktop operating system like Microsoft Windows. But in the age of the internet, they have the power to plug applications into, well, almost anything. They’ve already transformed websites like Google and Facebook and Twitter into services that talk to a world of other applications, across PCs as well as mobile phones. But that’s small potatoes. They’re also reinventing old-world operations, including mobile carriers like AT&T and even auto makers like GM.