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.
The question is, if you removed that protection, would you have gotten to the current place you are, or would nobody have bothered because there was no way to make a company in that space?
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_Especially_ with APIs, which today are absolutely terrible, I think it'd be a major mistake to declare ourselves done and to discourage people from investing in designing and perfecting new APIs. Which is exactly what removing copyright protection would do.
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Businesses will always have to weigh the benefits of making the API open or closed, and if they choose open, they get certain benefits, so they can decide whether to compete on design or implementation. That seems like a _good_ thing, not a bad one.
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