You may be a supporter of OSS, Open Platforms, Trade Secrets, Licenses, or Patents; perspectives differ. When it comes to Algorithms, this is true that they should’ve been covered everywhere under the ambit of Copyrights only, and never under Patents, as Algorithms are after all LITERARY STEPS or Methods written in literary wordings with no technical advancement ‘per se’, but merely an instruction to perform a technical action, which in its original format directly cannot be industrially implemented. I’ve no idea why some contend(ed) to include it under the ambit of Patents. And when the Algorithms are being converted into Coding and implemented as Software, then too, Algorithms, should be covered under Copyrights only, for the reason that once they being coded, their characteristics, language, and way of implementation, format changes. So, when something absolutely gets transmuted from one form or another, then it cannot be considered as original (again, ‘per se’). BUT, there’s massive issue in including Algorithms under the ambit of Copyrights as well. Do you think, an N-Bit encryption, should’ve the term of LIFE + 60 YEARS, further, in the absence of Compulsory License/March In Rights, as stated under the ambit of Patents, for instance S. 84.