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0 pointsrusk5y ago0 comments

I think you have to have demonstrated that you have taken steps to protect your copyright. I’d imagine submitting to a standard would relinquish that. Patents on the other hand ...

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ghaff5y ago· 2 in thread

You absolutely do not have to protect a copyright. Even if a book is out of print, you can't start selling it--or even giving copies away for free. However, although IANAL, I assume that submitting something to a standards body and having it accepted allows those standards to be used in accordance with the terms of the standards body--which BTW may not require that use be free in all cases.

jlarocco5y ago

> Even if a book is out of print, you can't start selling it--or even giving copies away for free.

That's not exactly true. You can't photocopy it and start printing your own.

But if you have legal copies of it, you can definitely sell them or give them away.

ghaff5y ago

First-sale doctrine of physical artifacts. But not copies of those. Correct.

jmalicki5y ago

I have heard that a lot for trademarks, do you have reference for copyrights?

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