> seems to be a difficult battle for copyright holders, in US law, at least. heh, I wonder if you could argue that the catalog of functions/methods/symbols is

> seems to be a difficult battle for copyright holders, in US law, at least. heh, I wonder if you could argue that the catalog of functions/methods/symbols is a database and should thus be copyrightable under EU law. it would obviously be hugely destructive if upheld, but, I think "database right" is fairly incoherent as a concept anyway, other than as an attempt to uphold "sweat of the brow doctrine" (ie "anything I worked to make should be mine by law"), which is already discredited in US law.