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Supreme Court May Decide the Fate of APIs (But Also Klingonese and Dothraki)

Posted by timothy on from the will-people-finally-stop-saying-frak? dept.

New submitter nerdpocalypse writes: In a larger battle than even Godzilla v. Mothra, Google v. Oracle threatens not only Japan but the entire nerd world. What is at stake is how a language can be [copyrighted]. This affects not just programming languages, APIs, and everything that runs ... well ... everything, but also the copyright status of new languages such as Klingon and Dothraki.

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  1. Jurisdiction by rossdee · · Score: 5, Funny

    The US Supreme Court has no jurisdiction outside of the USA.
    So this isn't going to affect Klingons