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Re:Oracle copied Amazon’s API – was that copyright infringem... by Spivak on Monday January 06, 2020 @04:19PM (#21973444)
No, because a patent would only cover your novel implementation of those functions.

You can't copyright them either in the same way that Harry Potter is copyrighted but not the word 'the' which is used throughout.

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