Re: Copyright for "simulating halt decider" by Olcott for many years

On 02/03/2025 14:18, olcott wrote:

On 3/2/2025 3:44 AM, Mikko wrote:

On 2025-03-02 07:45:26 +0000, joes said:
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Am Sun, 02 Mar 2025 02:28:14 +0000 schrieb Mr Flibble:

Stop stealing my idea: it is Copyright 2022 Mr Flibble.

May I note that useless or wrong ideas are not patentable.

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No patent was claimed, only copyright. But copyright does not protect ideas,
only particular presentations of those ideas, to some extent.
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 For example the term "simulating halt decider" and
"simulating termination analyzer" have been copyrighted
by me for many years.

No, they haven't. Copyright protects creative work, not word salad.

I do this to establish academic
credit for these underlying ideas.

If you want to do that, write a paper and copyright /that/.
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