As the copyright holder of "throw new", the Junior dev infringed my copyright! Let alone them infringing copyright of the company they crafted that code for. O

As the copyright holder of "throw new", the Junior dev infringed my copyright! Let alone them infringing copyright of the company they crafted that code for. On a more serious note, there is a question whether algorithms and code blocks can be copyrighted, or if it is the _software_ that is copyrighted. Let's say I use websockets and you crib my usage of websockets for your own application. My opinion is that unless you rebuild the same thing I did, then "cribbing" is the long held art of "let me google how to do that". The artistic creation is the end software product, not really some measly embedded function that is boiler plate (form and function) for anything to work. The 'form and function' clause of copyright almost certainly makes a range check function not a copyright infringement.