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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 26 2012 @ 08:52 AM EDT |
Right, that would be 17 usc 102(a)(1)
However see this:
17 usc 102(b) "In no case does copyright protection for an
original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure,
process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or
discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described,
explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work."
So a literary work or a movie, is a sequence of events in
time, indeed they have a simpe and obvious structure,
sequence and order.
An API is an intangible technical system of networked
functions and/or methods with no obvious structure that can
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 26 2012 @ 09:48 AM EDT |
Yes, that is the abstraction filtration that is required when looking at
copyright in databases.
I was merely stating that there is no prejudice for the judge to state that SSO
can be copyrighted.
It Can.
Whether Oracles definition of it is actually covered is a whole different ball
game to the one that has so far been discussed (to whit; what is an API?).
And is indeed addressed by your comment.
It would seem very unlikely at this stage.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 26 2012 @ 11:23 AM EDT |
I think that what you're thinking of is selection, arrangement, and
coordination, which is what is protected in compilations and databases.
SSO has nothing to do with it.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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