Oracle's Android appeal argues that 37 lines of Java API code should claim the same copyright protections as a creative work. But that's not how the law -- or the tech industry -- works.

Sometimes you can’t make ’em up, when it comes to real news stories. Oracle beginning an appeal against the previous ruling of its Java-Android copyright/patent infringement case is no great surprise.

The Supreme Court has sided with Google in the long-running Java API copyright case known as Oracle v. Google, finding that Google is legally entitled to use elements of Java APIs in its Android code.