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I think there is a way to make APIs copyrightable:

1.) Hire a bonafide poet (e.g., someone with an MFA degree in Creative Writing).

2.) Have them write Haikus on salary for your company ("work made for hire" under copyright law).

3.) Use the Haikus in your API names.

e.g. for a sqrt() function in Java:

public double sqrt___an_ancient_pond_$_a_frog_jumps_in_$_the_splash_of_water(double number);




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