Months later, we're still making sense of the Supreme Court's API copyright ruling

Given APIs' ubiquity and importance, it's understandable that all industry eyes were on the U.S. Supreme Court's April 5 ruling in Google LLC v. Oracle America Inc., an 11-year-old case that addressed two core questions: Whether copyright protection extends to an API, and whether use of an API in the context of creating a new computer program constitutes fair use. Google lawyers had called it "the copyright case of the decade."