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The funding doesn’t go to standards creation. Other sources of revenue solve.
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
Third, SSOs generally use the revenues they derive from selling or licensing the standards to subsidize other activities of their organizations, rather than to recoup investments in the making the standard.159 Even without copyright in the standards, SSOs can derive revenues from sales of print materials embodying the standard and value-added products or services. 160
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