[od-discuss] ISO Codes

Mon Nov 17 22:36:49 UTC 2014

Rob is correct. The copyright claim is over the documents not the standards.

In addition certain portions of standards or potentially entire standards
are not more than statements of fact for example currency codes and country
codes. Facts are not subject to copyright.

There is a vast difference between a standard such as a compilation of
currency codes and a standard like Office "Open" XML which is not factual.

Andrew Rens

On 17 November 2014 16:30, Rob Myers <rob at robmyers.org> wrote:

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> On 17/11/14 01:16 PM, Michael Roberts wrote:
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> > For those designing standards or using ISO codes ( things like ISO
> > Country codes ) are we violating copyright and/or the spirit of
> > things like the Open Definition?
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> I think the PDF notice refers to the full text of the standards
> documents, not e.g. the country codes.
>
> - - Rob.
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