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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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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Another way to say it would be that if you don't think APIs should be protected, you similarly don't think competition between APIs is important. Because why would a company compete on APIs if they can't protect them?
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