[cc-community] my problem with Free Beer

Fred Benenson fred.benenson at gmail.com
Tue Mar 4 16:34:40 EST 2008


My understanding is that the art and surrounding materials (photos, how to)
are meant to be free as in speech as well, but it's also more of a
tongue-in-cheek name for a beer.

F


On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Robert Atwood <lists at atwood.org.uk> wrote:

>  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 >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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