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		monocasa on April 5, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [... Under the law, they do not receive protection. See Baker v. Selden, which despite it's age is still good law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_v._Selden

ccleve on April 7, 2021 [–]

No. Baker v. Selden does not settle the question of APIs and fair use. That is why the Google v Oracle case made it to the Supreme Court.

monocasa on April 8, 2021 | [–]

It does say that the facts of a traditional print formatting specification (ie. the specific subtopic we're talking about) is not granted copyright protections.

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