Oracle's Android appeal argues that 37 lines of Java API code should claim the same copyright protections as a creative work. But that's not how the law -- or the tech industry -- works.

Java APIs for cloud computing, microservices, and REST Programming with APIs comes to the fore with the modern web API: a network-exposed API (NEA), where the boundary between systems is “over ...

Oracle said the Java APIs were like a beautiful painting. Google said they were more like a file cabinet. And in the end, Judge William Alsup came closest to agreeing with Google, comparing an API ...

Android is built largely upon Java, which was developed by Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s and is now property of Oracle, which acquired Sun in 2010. Litigation Is All About Fair Use of APIs ...

Policy Oracle’s Java API code protected by copyright, appeals court rules Code, structure, sequence, and API organization entitled to copyright protection. David Kravets – May 9, 2014 8:58 AM ...

Java 24 includes the release of the Steam Gatherers API, which supports custom intermediate operations, allowing stream pipelines to transform data in ways that are difficult when using built-in ...

Judge: Oracle Java API elements not copyrightable, related claims against Google dismissed Juge William Alsup ruled that the structure, sequence, and organization of 37 Java APIs were not covered ...

The Java APIs that Google used to develop Android were protected by copyright law, a court has ruled -- now Google has defend its moves as "fair use" or potentially pay Oracle billions.

APIs exist for a reason: They act as the communication channel, the lingua franca, the boundary, between the provider of the implementation and users of that implementation -- developers.

The API, along with Python, Java, and Golang software development kits (SDKs), will give DevOps, IT operations, and managed service providers, "another vector of customisability and flexibility to ...