Peter Kaminski / flickr A federal appeals court on Friday reversed a federal judge that had ruled that Oracle's Java API's were not protected by copyright. Google had copied certain elements—names, declaration and header lines—of the Java APIs in Android, and Oracle sued. A judge largely sided with Google in 2012, a decision that was reversed Friday. "Because we conclude that the declaring code and the structure, sequence, and organization of the API packages are entitled to copyright protection, we reverse the district court’s copyrightability determination with instructions to reinstate the jury’s infringement finding as to the 37 Java packages," the US Appeals Court for the Federal Circuit ruled Friday. Read on Ars Technica | Comments