As far as IP protections go, they're similar, but the incentives are so different that you get songwriters going to court over bits of melodies that might be wo

As far as IP protections go, they're similar, but the incentives are so different that you get songwriters going to court over bits of melodies that might be worth millions. Outside of quantitative trading, it's hard to find an example of 10 lines of code that are worth millions and couldn't easily be replaced with another implementation.