{"id":3751,"date":"2012-04-13T16:14:15","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T21:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3751"},"modified":"2012-04-13T16:14:15","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T21:14:15","slug":"oracle-thinks-you-can-copyright-a-programming-language-google-disagrees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3751","title":{"rendered":"Oracle thinks you can copyright a programming language, Google disagrees"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Google then goes on to explain that &#8220;a given set of statements or instructions may be protected, but the protection does not extend to the method of operation or system \u2014 the programming language \u2014 by which they are understood by the computer.&#8221; Google is arguing that a computer language is &#8220;inherently a utilitarian, nonprotectable means by which computers operate&#8221; and merely provides the structure, selection and organization of the software.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2012\/4\/13\/2944440\/google-oracle-lawsuit-programming-language-copyright\">Oracle thinks you can copyright a programming language, Google disagrees | The Verge<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google then goes on to explain that &#8220;a given set of statements or instructions may be protected, but the protection does not extend to the method of operation or system \u2014 the programming language \u2014 by which they are understood &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3751\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[439,423,47],"class_list":["post-3751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ip","tag-copyright","tag-google","tag-monopolistic-practices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3752,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3751\/revisions\/3752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}