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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 o

• jmalicki 6y ago
  I have heard that a lot for trademarks, do you have reference for copyrights?
• ghaff 6y ago
  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.
  • jlarocco 6y 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.
    • ghaff 6y ago
      First-sale doctrine of physical artifacts. But not copies of those. Correct.