Clean room reverse engineering isn't a loophole. It's the legal recognition that functional knowledge cannot be monopolized through copyright. The technique works because copyright protects expression, not ideas. It protects the specific arrangement of words in a novel, not the plot. It protects the specific sequence of notes in a song, not the chord progression. And it protects the specific implementation of code, not the behavior that code produces.

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