[defrost]

I agree but I'd suggest that weights are less like the telephone numbers in a directory and much more like the proportional weights in a recipe.

Recipes, famously, are almost but not quite copyrightable | patentable.

eg:

https://copyrightalliance.org/are-recipes-cookbooks-protecte...

https://etheringtons.com.au/are-recipes-protected-by-copyrig...