A California Jury Finds Copyright Infringement In an Interface (deepchip.com)

Posted by timothy on Friday March 11, 2016 @12:56AM from the make-yours-look-like-mine dept.

whoever57 writes: A California jury in one of the cases between Synopsys and Atoptech found copyright infringement in Atoptech's use of the "Primetime commands". These companies compete in the field of EDA ("Electronic Design Automation") software: software that is used by semiconductor companies to design ICs. The Primetime commands are merely an interface. Atoptech has their own implementation of the functionality that these commands [provide]. This can be seen as similar to the Oracle vs. Google lawsuit, in which an appeals court has found that providing a similar interface (via header files) can constitute copyright infringement. Naturally, there will be appeals in this case.

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Re:Lets eliminate copyright by Anonymous Coward · 2016-03-11 02:17 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Intellectual property is a lie. You are living a lie. Therefore, your whole life is a lie.
Why hide behind lies when you can simply level with everyone? Why do words exist except to share? Why place any barriers in the way? It's hypocritcal and stupid.
Just reject the lot of it. It's all garbage. Copyright, patents, trademarks... They are all just elaborate lies told by greedy assholes who don't deserve what they benefit from it. That is an undeniable fact.