It's not that bad. Copyright covers the publication, in this case the written paper, not the technique; that could be covered by a patent, but is unlikely. Fo

It's not that bad. Copyright covers the publication, in this case the written paper, not the technique; that could be covered by a patent, but is unlikely. For basic, wet-lab bench research, traditional copyright has for example permitted replication forever - no issue there. Code is a trickier issue, but generally no, you could not publish derivative code. Not that you generally can under traditional copyright.