[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
> http://www.hungryfilmmaker.com
> < matt.agnello at gmail.com >
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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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