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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google by wvenable on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @02:24PM (#16691337)
I think it's important to remember what copyright is meant to protect -- expressions of ideas. You can't copyright the structure of an engine in a car. You can't copyright medicine.

There is a bit of a "intellectual property" slippy slope going on here. Whether or not something is useful or non-trivial is inconsequential.

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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @02:53PM (#16691627)
> You can't copyright the structure of an engine in a car. //

You could design an engine to have an artistic structure. What you couldn't then do is stop anyone copying the functional parts of the engine and leaving out the purely artistic elements.

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