I don't understand what any of what you said has to do with established copyright law, and are you saying that IFTTT or Zapier are not copyrighted because they're "merely an interface" (what Java does for declaration code is as complex as what they do)? What about Haskell's mtl or lens that do even less? They seem to think they're copyrighted: https://github.com/ekmett/lens/blob/master/LICENSE
Oracle sued over the act of copying of 11K lines of extremely creative code for commercial purposes and not for compatibility. Nothing of this kind and magnitude has happened in the software industry. Any claim that this is about "copyrighting APIs" in general or changing anything about copyright and fair-use are biased interpretations.
Oracle sued over the act of copying of 11K lines of extremely creative code for commercial purposes and not for compatibility. Nothing of this kind and magnitude has happened in the software industry. Any claim that this is about "copyrighting APIs" in general or changing anything about copyright and fair-use are biased interpretations.