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SDOs don’t develop standards where they claim copyright.
Samuelson 07 – Richard M. Sherman Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, former Professor at Harvard University, J.D. from Yale University.
Pamela Samuelson, “Questioning Copyright in Standards,” University of California, Berkeley, https://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~pam/papers/BC%20questioning%20standards.pdf
Second, SSOs generally do not actually develop the standards in which they claim copyrights. 157 Rather, they typically rely upon volunteer service by experts in the field to develop standards and require volunteers to assign any copyright interests to the SSOs. The community development of a standard is a reason to treat the standard itself as a shared resource. 158
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