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@sarahjeong APIs are like Human Lanaguage.

They are the tools that help us describe an idea and the instructions to realise that idea. Copyrighting APIs would be like banning certain people from using words to describe or action certain things. So if EAT Ltd copyrighted the word "Eat" from being used for all humans who implemented it as a way of communicating ideas about eating to other Humans, then whenever we wanted to discuss eating or even take part in that activity then we would need a new word.

If this continued then soon everyone would end up having to invent whole new collection of words to the point where could you even argue its the same language? Computers are powerful when they inteoperate with APIs just like the way Humans are powerful when they can interoperate with words.