I get that 'hard/creative/important work' isn't the core of the legal issue, I was referring to the statement in the text, which I think is quite wrong. But AP

I get that 'hard/creative/important work' isn't the core of the legal issue, I was referring to the statement in the text, which I think is quite wrong. But APIs are, I think, 'works of authorship'. It seems rational to me that APIs should have the same copyright protections as code, poetry, music, etc..