On Fri, 18 Jul 2025 at 14:17, Oliver Hunt via Std-Proposals
<std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> I do not believe that any part of submitting a paper to WG21 puts it in the public domain,

I am unaware of anything that would disagree with that, either. IANAL,
but I have been 'round this block long enough, nothing whatsoever
anywhere
suggests that such publication puts the papers in the public domain. However,

> or requires granting others the right to arbitrarily repackage or republish papers in whole or in part without consent of the authors.

To be fair, there's a part in the description of the application
discussed here that doesn't do any of that. It doesn't repackage or
republish papers.
It doesn't distribute either the original works or derived works
thereof. If it just downloads the papers and then summarizes them in
whichever
way, I am completely unaware of any copyright mechanism that I could
appeal to to say I don't want that to happen. The hypothetical
possibilities
of extending copyright to "load it into RAM and have a program process
the data" and other DRM-like things are ones that I wouldn't appeal
to even if I could. But that's just me, and I'm in no way suggesting
that that applies to others.

> Again, my belief is that ISO’s IP policy means paper and report authors maintain copyright of their work, and reuse of that work in part or in full requires the explicit consent of the owners, and submitting papers and reports does not provide carte blanche permission for those papers and reports to be redistributed either directly or transformed into other forms by other members in their own projects.

..but if the transformation isn't distributed beyond a local user of a
computer program, then what have you?