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We make things protectable so that private entities can cordon them off from the public so that they can make money from them by selling copies. If we had a different funding arrangement for the arts, such things would certainly be unnecessary. In this case, we can clearly see that privatizing APIs gains the public nothing and Oracle and co. lots of things.

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You are a private entity. You can write software. If you do, you should have the same rights as Oracle does on software it owns. Corporations are people and you are people.

Private entities create things of value and share them with an incentive to recover their investment, and then some.

If it's possible for anyone, including private entities like Google, to CTRL-A, CTRL-C, CTRL-V it into their own use, then there is negative incentive to create that kind of value for the world.

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