Comment by bitwize

Indeed.

Bring back look-and-feel copyrights and the Whelan interpretation of software copyright. Programmers have gotten away with stealing the patterns for entire programs, producing identical clones of another company's valuable IP, for far too long.

I have a feeling that Whelan is going to become relevant again as judges realize that people are using AI to copyright-launder major applications and games (a practice for which I'll coin the term "sloppylefting"), effectively stealing them in a way that cannot be prosecuted using the current very strict interpretation of copyright law with respect to software.