How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented
Three decades of UI research came together in the mice, windows, and icons used today
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Three decades of UI research came together in the mice, windows, and icons used today
Everything about this Restatement says that it's an industry-funded attempt to screw individual creators out of proper copyright protections, to the benefit of Big Tech.
If Big Tech, particularly Google, gets its way, the idea that creators have broad rights to their own works won’t be backed up in US copyright law.
America's top judges decide copied code in Android is fair use Share Copy The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled in a 6-2 decision that Google's limited copying of Oracle's Java APIs in its Android operating system constitutes fair use under US law. The ruling puts an end to a case that troubled the software industry for more than a decade and narrows the scope of copyright law as it applies to software. The court had two questions before it: whether software interfaces qualify for copyright protection and whether Google's use of Oracle's software interface code represents fair use, ass...