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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Replying to @cmuratori
what's an "api" anyway? should one be able to copyright a hash table? it certainly has an _interface_ that applications can _program_ against, making it an Application Programming Interface. should that be copyrightable?
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These are unrelated. If you want to talk about what the minimum size of a work is, that is something that exists throughout copyright (for books, movies, etc.) This has nothing to do with whether _categories_ inside a particular medium should be denied protection categorically.
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