In the wake of last week‘s horrible ruling saying that APIs are covered by copyright, we‘ve pointed out that the negative impact on innovation could be massive, creating chilling effects concerning all sorts of development. Thankfully, at least some companies are being fairly proactive in distancing themselves from the crazy idea that APIs can be covered by copyright. Automattic, the makers of WordPress, just amended their API Terms of Use to make it explicit that they don‘t believe APIs are copyrightable subject matter, and they will not claim copyright on them: