the ISO standard footnote
"All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and microfilm, without permission in writing from either ISO at the address below or ISO's member body in the country of the requester".
therefore it seems clear no part may be reproduced/copied

some "ISO's member bodies" even state no partial copy.
But if the intent of a standard is to standardize "words, reference tables, definitions, procedures" it is useless if I can not copy/use the "standard" statements, isn't it?
A suggestion was to just use references without statements:
I don't like customers who make a report, a questionaire or a drawing full of references to standards (may be their own standard or country standards). I can not buy and translate all the world standards and check for every updating. There are only few very important standards and I aspect all my suppliers and customers known them
One point was that we don't cause a money loss or diminishing sales.
Someone may argue that we are working for the profit of our company and we are using "their" standard to get profit and if we use just a reference they will sell more copies.
Another point was an example from New York Court.
If I remember New Your was the only state in US, and may be in the world, that declares public images/facts etc (sorry the song was "imagine") can not be copyrighted.
At the my modest opinion.
First "status quo": so many companies / entities are using "standard" statements / tables etc without copyright issue/persecutions by the "standards" organization that it is allowed the normal use to copy statements inside company own documents if it is clear that the original document has got more and relevant informations.
Second my hope: standards as knowledge should be free.
sorry if I hurt somebody, it was not my intent
