This is interesting. I think there will be a lot of fallout if they find that APIs are copyrightable. Until now, I think the industry has been acting as though

This is interesting. I think there will be a lot of fallout if they find that APIs are copyrightable. Until now, I think the industry has been acting as though APIs are not copyrightable. The next question will be what actually constitutes an API? For example, are Unix programs like "mv" and "grep" parts of an API?