https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190124/16465441463/google-asks-supreme-court-to-overturn-crazy-ruling-about-copyright-apis.shtml > This is, of course, no surprise at all, but Google has officially asked the Supreme Court to fix the Federal Circuit's ridiculously bad ruling concerning copyright of APIs. Remember, this was the Federal Circuit's second awful ruling in this same case, both regarding the copyright status of APIs. The first bad ruling is still a travesty, in that a technically illiterate court couldn't comprehend that an API is like a recipe or instruction set that is not subject to copyright under Section 102(b) of the Copyright Act that explicitly states: > In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work.