that "[t]he Java APIs as a whole meet the low threshold for
originality required by the Constitution.”
Jacobs' opening
statement:Sun did all of this with Java. Copyright is in the US
Constitution, Art 1, Section 8, Clause 8.
Article I, Section 8,
Clause 8 of the United States Constitution: To promote the Progress
of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and
Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and
Discoveries.
I can't see Google stipulating that the Constitution
states the threshold of originalty for copyrights. In fact, they know that the
Constitution says nothing at all about copyrights. The law deals with
copyrights.
So, perhaps Judge Alsup is going to agree with Google's
objection of irrelevance that the APIs do, indeed, meet the thresholds for
originality in the Constitution in that there aren't any!--- Regards
Ian Al
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