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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 20 2012 @ 08:19 AM EDT |
That's a misinterpretation of what I meant, but probably not what I said - it
was clearly not well worded given the interpretations so far.
You can express an API in a tangible form - typically a set of
interface/header/whatever is appropriate for the language files. That's a
tangible representation of the API and thus the original argument (that because
you can't "hold" an API it isn't copyrightable) is probably not
correct.
IE - while an API is an abstract concept it can be expressed in a tangible form
- in just the same way music or an article can be. You can't hold an API any
more than you can hold music. But you can hold a CD or a DVD with source code.
The reason why they're not (or shouldn't be!) copyrightable is that it's a
functional contract, not because it's intangible.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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