Video: Panel Discussion on the Outcome in Google v. Oracle

April 11, 2021 David Newhoff Tags: Adam Mossoff Committee for Justice Featured Google v. Oracle Steven Tepp Zvi Rosen

The Committee for Justice held this panel discussion about the decision in Google v. Oracle. Featuring Adam Mossoff Professor of Law at Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University Zvi Rosen Assistant Professor at the Southern Illinois University School of Law, Steven Tepp President & CEO of Sentinel Worldwide, and moderated by Curt Levey, President of the Committee for Justice.

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David Newhoff

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David is an author, communications professional, and copyright advocate. After more than 20 years providing creative services and consulting in corporate communications, he shifted his attention to law and policy, beginning with advocacy of copyright and the value of creative professionals to America’s economy, core principles, and culture.

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Michael R Graham says:

April 12, 2021 at 1:51 pm

The discussion is terribly slanted and (like the Court) ignores the fundamental difference between Java Call Outs for API code and API programs. Justice Thomas’ dissent is itself a terrible frolic and detour of reasoning.

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- David Newhoff says:
  
  April 12, 2021 at 1:59 pm
  
  The point of the discussion–and the reason the opinion is so awful–is that the Court declined to render a decision on the copyrightability of APIs. Had it done that and held, under merger, that the APIs do not qualify for protection, that would have been a rational outcome which people of good intent could debate on the merits. As it is, Breyer’s stuffing a copyrightability question into prong two of the fair use test is simply bad law.
  
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