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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The point is not that there aren't drawbacks to copyrighting APIs, the point is that nobody seems to offer a compelling reason why _only APIs_ don't get protection. If _nothing_ had protection, I'd agree APIs shouldn't either. But it seems very strange to single them out.
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Ability to exactly clone _always_ increases competition. Yet we almost never allow it anywhere. But people claim API cloning is great - well, if that's true, why don't those arguments apply everywhere? That's what I'm not hearing.
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