14 Jul
2020
14 Jul
'20
5:53 p.m.
I am not entirely sure that it would have been copyrightable, in any case.
17 USC 102(b): In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work.
Such things are the domain of patent rather than copyright. And we can discuss another time why AMSAT should not pursue patents.
Of course, most people stick a copyright declaration on things without ever understanding that. Don't try to take it to court.