Intellectual Property Restrictions are key to the tech industry, changing it hurts them heavily.
Greenfield’21[Heather Greenfield; August 30; Partner in the Global Antitrust/Competition Practice of White & Case; CCIA, “CCIA Files Brief Asking Court To Uphold Law On What Is Uncopyrightable.” LexisNexis]
"Our brief supports rulings by U.S. courts and Europe's highest court that SAS has failed to establish that the material in question was copyrightable. The district court correctly concluded that SAS input formats and output designs are uncopyrightable. The outcome of this is important to the tech industry as the appropriate scope of copyright law is key to competition and innovation."
According to the brief filed:
"CCIA members have a large stake in the rules of software copyright being properly designed: effective intellectual property protection encourages developers to create new applications, but the improper extension of copyright law to functional elements will discourage innovation, inhibit competition in the industry, and harm consumers."
"Imposing copyright liability on a developer merely for replicating the functionality of another program would have dire consequences for competition in all technology industries."