On Wed, 28 May 2025 at 12:59, Sebastian Wittmeier via Std-Proposals
<std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> just some comments to not discuss this topic to death:
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> Copyright exemptions
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> There are some areas which in most regions are exempt from copyright: Legal contracts are one area.
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> Also we do not want the people submitting a paper with a new wording, prevent any other competing paper to use a standard wording:
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> E.g. my paper suggests adding [[safe]]. But I want to have copyright on that attribute.

You can't copyright an idea, or a keyword. You retain copyright on the
wording in your paper that described the idea, but not the idea
itself.

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> So any competing paper, even or if mine is not accepted, may not reuse [[safe]], because it is my copyrighted attribute.

That's not possible, so this hypothetical situation is not something
we need to worry about.