Other than just wanting to be able to copy other people's work as they often do all the time anyway, I'm not sure I understand major tech giants' argument as to why APIs would not be copyrightable. They are, if anything, much harder to make well than their implementations.
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This is because in my experience, the vast majority of my time as a programmer on a novel problem is spent figuring out how it should be broken down. Once I know that, the implementation is usually relatively simple.
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What should get copyright protection and what doesn't has nothing to with what's more valuable to the copyright owner.
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The argument is about what's in the public interest. Having a monopoly over you own implementation doesn't limit who can interoperate with your software nearly as much as a monopoly on the API.
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