>But if the government can essentially revoke a private individual or company's copyright merely by incorporating otherwise protected text into legislation, tha

>But if the government can essentially revoke a private individual or company's copyright merely by incorporating otherwise protected text into legislation, that can have adverse effects on copyright holders. I don't know if this is actually being proposed as a possible solution. It might be enough to prevent governments from doing the reference in the first place. Then it would be up to the government to negotiate public access to to any standards they wanted to make law. There is a commonly used approximation used to compensate for the change in density of various retail petroleum products with temperature. In my country we have a law covering how such compensation is to be done at the retail level. That law is a reference to a standard behind a pay and weirdness wall. In Belgium they have the same sort of law, but the actual function is right there in the law, in standard mathematical notation.