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Comment by vmateixeira | Hacker News Reader

In your opinion, would that apply to web APIs too?

How many ways are there to write a create user API besides POST /user/?

Does that mean every company should then be taken to coury as well?

No, for the same reasons that it's not infringement to write code like:

  def full_name
     return self.first_name + " " + self.last_name
  end

Isn't your argument that `def full_name` is copyrightable, though? Why not the rest, then?

But what about backend code that reimplements full_name, for instance, what Amazon Maps does with the Google Maps API? https://developer.amazon.com/docs/maps/differences.html