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

On 3/2/2025 6:42 PM, Richard Damon wrote:

On 3/2/25 9:18 AM, 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. I do this to establish academic
credit for these underlying ideas.
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 Can't be, You can't "Copyright" words, only creative works.
 Your papers on the topic can be, but not the terms.
 Terms can be protected under "Trademark", but that has a cost to register, and also you have to show a comercial purpose, and can't be just an ordinary term of art that describes your thing.
 So, if you paid a lawyer to actually copyright the terms, you wasted money and got had. Just like if some lawyer suggested that you could get a copyright on such a term.
 

That every reference to the term "simulating halt decider"
in a Google search pulls up pages and pages of me establishes
that I am the creator of the notion of a "simulating halt decider"
that correctly determines that DD correctly emulated by HHH
cannot possibly reach its own "return" instruction and
terminate normally.
typedef void (*ptr)();
int HHH(ptr P);
int DD()
{
   int Halt_Status = HHH(DD);
   if (Halt_Status)
     HERE: goto HERE;
   return Halt_Status;
}
int main()
{
   HHH(DD);
}
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