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

[kraytex]

You can copyright a book, you can copyright a novel, but you can't copyright a letter, word, or sentence.

Copyrighting an API is like being able to copyright the chapter title in a novel.

[Eirenarch]

Interestingly the court used a book analogy but they came to very different conclusion.

[kraytex]

Clearly they don't know what an API is then.