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>Even for less trivial issues in user interface design, it is highly
>questionable that society would derive any benefit from protecting
>such designs via copyrights or patents. Such protection was not needed
>in the past, and it is doubtful that it will be very useful in the
>future.

Yes. Society derives a benefits. Innovative companies can stay in business. If
anyone can copy someones ideas after a company spends 4+ years designing it,
the few companies will take the risk. Society will receive user interfaces
that are rushed to market because companies will not spend the resources to
develop better ideas

Very few on the Macintosh interfaces ideas are "trivialities". Many have been
designed through extensive and expensive research. Other companies should
have to pay for that research if they want the result.
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