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The work I know of, I'm not in USA only have an interest in copyright laws in general, is Feist v Rural Telephone (1991) -- which appears to mirror codes for health procedures quite closely; but not exactly.

There's old but more recent law from Practice Management v AMA (1997) supporting that AMA's codes can't be copyrightable as they're part of legislation.

Berne's Art 2(8), to which USA are signed, related to non-copyright of facts.

I'm afraid I'm not appraised of the full situation, however.



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