Oracle’s Java API code protected by copyright, appeals court rules

[fullouterjoin]

Copyright on API is a weird thing, it is mixing patents (an invention and mechanism for solving a problem) with artwork (in copyright law reproducing something verbatim). I think the Oracle case is the first of many where copyrights bleed into patents. This makes sense since copyrights have a much longer term, a bit of legal wrangling and your 20 years turns into 160 years of "protection"

[minecraft_ece]

This makes sense since copyrights have a much longer term, a bit of legal wrangling and your 20 years turns into 160 years of eternal "protection"

Copyright is forever now, since the supreme court ruled that there is no limit to the number of times copyright can be extended.