On 2025-05-28 at 14:35, Jonathan Wakely via Std-Proposals wrote:
> On Wed, 28 May 2025 at 12:59, Sebastian Wittmeier via Std-Proposals
> <std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> just some comments to not discuss this topic to death:
>>
>> Copyright exemptions
>>
>> =================
>>
>> There are some areas which in most regions are exempt from copyright: Legal contracts are one area.
>>
>> Also we do not want the people submitting a paper with a new wording, prevent any other competing paper to use a standard wording:
>>
>> 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.

That would be a patent, which has to be applied for. :-)

A patent also requires that this idea is something that the rest of us
couldn't come up with in 5 minutes. "Safe C++" seems like it is not that
much of a novelty.