[cc-community] my problem with Free Beer

Robert Atwood lists at atwood.org.uk
Sat Mar 1 21:24:09 EST 2008


 From what the OP wrote it also sounds like they imply that the 
copyright protection and therefore the licensicg condition somehow 
covers the actual beeer ! I dont see hw that could be true?



Matthew J. Agnello wrote:
> The text of recipes have copyright protection under US law, but the 
> ideas behind that text (ingredients and steps) are not protected. 
> Therefore, someone rewriting the recipe would not be making a derivative 
> work. Weitzmann's problem stems from the fact that it confuses a general 
> audience to license a recipe under CC BY-SA because it implies someone 
> writing the same recipe a different way would also have to license their 
> work BY-SA, which isn't so.
> 
> // Matt
> 
> ----------
> Matt Agnello
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> 
> On Mar 1, 2008, at 12:23 PM, jonathon wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 8:08 PM, John Hendrik Weitzmann wrote:
>>
>>> The list of steps for brewing + the list of ingredients is  simply 
>>> not protected by any law (does anyone know of jurisdictions where  
>>> this doesn't apply?).
>>
>> The Dutch Copyright Act of 1912 Auterswet 1912 Article 10 (1) implies
>> that recipes have copyright protection.
>>
>> xan
>>
>> jonathon
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