On Jan 21, 2004, at 21:27, Henning Makholm wrote:
http://homepages.law.asu.edu/~dkarjala/cyberlaw/ PosSoftwareVNewCentury(DBstructures)(NDTex2003).htmIt is not clear to me that this text talks about APIs at all. It seems to be about the *internal* structure of a database, which - in my opinion at least - has very little to do with an *interface*.
It talks about "SQL Data Structures." It finds that those are copyrightable. I'm not sure why that wouldn't apply to, say, C data structures, as used in an API.