Upgrade StorageStyle guides, copyright and derivative works
Any IP lawyers out there? I've been working on a style sheet that implements a style guide released under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (CC by-nc-nd) licence and it has occurred to me to wonder whether such a style sheet could be considered to be a derivative work. My gut feeling is that implementing a guide is unlikely to breach its copyright - if I prune a tree in accordance with British Standard 3998 I wouldn't expect to find the BSI's lawyers banging on my door. But this isn't really something I know much about. Can anyone enlighten me?
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I'm not aware of any specific ruling on this, but at least under US IP law you can generally not copyright patterns - there _have_ been some rulings on this wrt knitting patterns.