[od-discuss] ISO Codes

Tue Nov 18 09:16:59 UTC 2014

On 11/17/2014 11:02 PM, Gisle Hannemyr wrote:
> /Data/  that are part of the standards, such as the ISO Country codes
> (defined by the ISO 3166 suite of standards) cannot be copyrighted and
> the use of these codes in within the IATI framework (and similar) does
> not infringe upon ISO's copyright.
Database rights may protect additional parts of the standards that 
copyright does not protect, but I'm not aware of ISO enforcing any 
database rights in the past. They've primarily been concerned with 
verbatim copies of the standards, either from PDFs or scanned.
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