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Re:Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster... by lmm on Sunday October 11, 2020 @09:01PM (#24750498)
> The words on paper (or any other medium) are protected under copyright. The story isn't.

That's the opposite of what you're claiming in the rest of your post.

> However the physical hardware (i.e. the thing whose representation is your digital design files) is not protected by copyright.

That's absurd; if you can copy the physical layout then you can copy the design, so copyright protection for the design would be meaningless.

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