Sentences with phrase «copyrightable because»

Google argues that the Java programming language and the APIs are essentially two parts of the same thing, and that the APis aren't copyrightable because the language isn't copyrightable.

The court found that the plastic replicas were copyrightable because the wishbones were designed using graphite electrodes to make it smooth and «attractive and sleek» with thinner arms and more rounded edges — making them worth $ 1.7 million in damages.

Not exact matches

And we went down to Washington and we filed our brief where we said, «Well that's fine but we also want to make the text not copyrightable,» because West would claim that if it corrected parallel citations, corrected typos, added the attorneys names, then they were entitled to copyright protection for that.

Also IP lawyers might just enjoy writing about this issue because it poses a unique opportunity to explore the boundaries of what is copyrightable.

Fastcase CEO Ed Walters was surprised by this demand, because public law is not copyrightable.

In finding that the APIs were entitled to protection, the Oracle court based its decision on the belief that the Ninth Circuit would find the APIs copyrightable, because there was more than one way to express them.