It's an interesting question, a standard is factual - the owner can retain the rights to the rendering, but the content is not covered by copyright anyway. If i

It's an interesting question, a standard is factual - the owner can retain the rights to the rendering, but the content is not covered by copyright anyway. If it's technical, it's not covered by copyright. Copyright is for artistic works, according to international treaty, the standard owners get to keep the artistic aspects of their rendering; anything factual -- such as technical details of a standard -- is fair game ... of course you have to convince the court of that purposive construction rather than the more popular [with some] financial construction of copyright law. > reference a song text by a US artist // Somewhat aside: the artist probably doesn't own the copyright and in any case a text of the lyrics is not the song. It's very likely that different people own the lyrics and the performance by an artist (and probably not the artist if it's a mass-media released track/song). So the artist would still get their copyright in the performance and could still collect on that; the songwriter might be aggrieved though ... it seems super unlikely to ever be an issue. There are already USC that allow reporting on court cases, presumably if a copyright work is played in court then that rendering can be duplicated without infringement. New Zealand courts played Eminem's "Lose Yourself" (https://scroll.in/video/836700/watch-what-happens-or-doesnt-when-eminems-music-takes-over-a-courtroom; https://scroll.in/video/836700/watch-what-happens-or-doesnt-... linked from this story, direct link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPcB5IlIILc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPcB5IlIILc).