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If You Can Copyright an API, What Else Can You Copyright?

Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 12:36

What does an API look like?

Sometimes, says Brian Pagano, it looks like this: /users. Or this: /products.

Brian Pagano is a software architect at Apigee, an outfit that does nothing but help companies build and operate APIs, interfaces that let one piece of software talk to another. In describing the APIs his company deals in, he wants to lend some perspective to another question, a question that may soon be answered by the federal judge overseeing the ongoing legal battle between Google and Oracle: Can you copyright an API?

Platforms: Cambrian explosion or Devonian extinction?

Monday, April 23, 2012 - 12:44

As our use of computers becomes ubiquitous — pervading our lives from our phones to our TVs to our cars — software is becoming the primary means for interaction. And apps are undergoing a “Cambrian explosion” of availability and diversification. The new “place” of business is on the buyer’s device, and goods and services must be available where and when their buyers want them.