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
Because each implementation can only have one API. Lets say someone makes the best API, but decides to make a subpar implementation. You effectively prevent anyone else from being able to make the best implementation since it uses the best API (that is copyrighted).
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Replying to @Mr_Slurpyy
But you could say exactly the same thing about the implementation. By your logic, we could just as easily say that the API could by copyrighted but the implementation can't be, because otherwise the people with the best API can't copy the best implementation.
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