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API copyright claims by Trackman survive dismissal bid; US judge says Oracle v. Google ruling ‘remains good law’

By Melissa Ritti ( September 26, 2024, 21:45 GMT | Insight) -- Two defendants failed to secure dismissal of copyright infringement allegations by Trackman, maker of Perfect Golf, when their early challenge to the protectability of application programming interface, or API, data for the popular golf simulator was rejected. A US judge cited the 2014 decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Oracle v. Google in support. That ruling was later reversed by the US Supreme Court, but on fair use — not protection — grounds. Thus, the judge concluded, the Federal Circuit’s API ruling ‘remains good law.’Allegations by Trackman that two competitors engaged in a “massive, coordinated campaign” to examine, study and ultimately convert golf courses depicted in the golf simulator Perfect Golf for use in their own competing products are moving forward....

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