I would LIKE to see a court ruling that since standards constitute “A method or means of operation,” they were not subject to copyright protection, and instead were subject to patent law. Very similar to the way that copyrighting a cookbook does not protect the underlying way of baking a cake. The protection of the description of HOW to comply with the underlying standard would seem to be so tightly bound to the actual means of operation to fall afoul of the Idea/expression divide. But then, sometimes I’m a dreamer.
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