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

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.
 

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.