Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bloch, Joshua
• Samuelson, Pamela

Titel

Some Misconceptions about Software in the Copyright Literature

Ist Teil von

• Proceedings of the 2022 Symposium on Computer Science and Law, 2022, p.131-141

Ort / Verlag

New York, NY, USA: ACM

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

ACM Digital Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The technical complexity and functionality of computer programs have made it difficult for courts to apply conventional copyright concepts, such as the idea/expression distinction, in the software copyright case law. This has created fertile ground for significant misconceptions. In this paper, we identify fourteen such misconceptions that arose during the lengthy course of the Google v. Oracle litigation. Most of these misconceptions concern application programming interfaces (APIs). We explain why these misconceptions were strategically significant in Oracle's lawsuit, rebut them, and urge lawyers and computer scientists involved in software copyright litigation to adopt and insist on the use of terminology that is technically sound and unlikely to perpetuate these misconceptions.