In a ruling in the Oracle vs. Google case, a San Francisco district court judge says 37 of Oracle's APIs are not copyrightable. Oracle plans to appeal the ruling.

The scene of the Oracle-Google trial Thursday was more like a computer science classroom than a courtroom as the witnesses explained the inner workings of Java and APIs.

Oracle said the Java APIs were like a beautiful painting. Google said they were more like a file cabinet. And in the end, Judge William Alsup came closest to agreeing with Google, comparing an API ...

Can application programming interfaces be copyrighted? The Oracle vs Google jury was instructed to rule as if they could be copyrighted, but the final call, and the fate of programming as we know ...

And Oracle has for years argued that using an API is unrelated to reimplementation and not an infringement of copyright (or else every app developer using Java would infringe).

Oracle has released a cloud API and submitted part of it to a standards organisation.On Wednesday the company released a general Oracle Cloud API, and submitted a subset of the API — the Oracle ...

Google beats Oracle—Android makes “fair use” of Java APIs Oracle has spent many millions trying to get a chunk of Android, to no avail.

Oracle’s infringement case against Google over the use of Java APIs in Android has now moved to the trial phase. We’ve collected all of our daily reports, analysis, and courtroom coverage for ...

With its Cloud Resource Model API, Oracle joins Red Hat and Rackspace in offering a set of standard interfaces for building a cloud stack ...