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Your food may be copyrigted... - 8/23/2015 8:31:10 AM

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This should probably be in a "Weird News" section. I got a kick out of it. (and I'm not one for trampling)

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.welt.de%2Ffinanzen%2Fverbraucher%2Farticle145156808%2FDas-Fotografieren-von-Essen-koennte-teuer-werden.html&edit-text=

I wonder if that meme will cross over to the U.S. Posting a picture of your meal is violation of the chef's copyright to his creation.

Sometimes people actually do come across as a really weird science fiction story.

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RE: Your food may be copyrigted... - 8/24/2015 8:53:18 AM

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ORIGINAL: MercTech

This should probably be in a "Weird News" section. I got a kick out of it. (and I'm not one for trampling)

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.welt.de%2Ffinanzen%2Fverbraucher%2Farticle145156808%2FDas-Fotografieren-von-Essen-koennte-teuer-werden.html&edit-text=

I wonder if that meme will cross over to the U.S. Posting a picture of your meal is violation of the chef's copyright to his creation.

Sometimes people actually do come across as a really weird science fiction story.

well.. if the copyright infringer doesnt mention the name of the restaurant/chef that produced the item, how can the restaurant/chef prove that there was a copyright infrigment? If you pay $ for your meal then why cant you take a pic of it or a selfie of you eating it? You buy a toy, why cant you take a pic of your child playing with it? An architect usually has a copyright on his/her building's design/floorplan but anyone can take a pic of the building, but you cant reproduce the building itself without copyright infringment. When has an architects copyright extended to someone else's pics of his/her buildings? And once the chef has passed his/her "creation" to you/sold it to you, then he no longer owns it. Personally i have never seen the attraction to taking pics of your food.. and too, once its on the internet its on forever.. Imo its the person that takes the pic that has the copyright and can sell the pic to whoever wants to buy the pic of sushi/some building/anything else in the world.. As far as the US goes, dont those kinda lawsuits need to prove a financial loss? And if this applies to food, then anyone taking a pic of someones dog (even in a public place) would also be infringing on the dog owners copyrights, or any other silly example of going extreme/stupid.. I would classify this not as a weird science fiction story but rather as a stupid/dumb people news story.. or in this case, a stupid/dumb-law-firm-looking-for-more-work news story..

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RE: Your food may be copyrigted... - 8/24/2015 9:00:17 AM

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Thers a lot of .....eclectic .....people out there.

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RE: Your food may be copyrigted... - 8/24/2015 11:00:15 AM

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One could not copy right food. They could copyright the name of a dish. But not the actual dish. Since the creation of the end product is a process; that would be defined as a intellectual property (IP). However, IP, once out in the public, loses many of its protections. What the customer does with the product after purchase leaves the owner with very few options. Granted there exist many exceptions to this concept.

A person purchasing a can of soda has the right to use the container and contents; but they do not own the concept of the container or contents. A chemist could easily figure out the Coke-Cola formula with just a six pack. Yet they could not turn around, replicate the formula and sell it as their product, because it already exists in the legal spectrum as property of someone else.

If someone wants to take a picture of themselves drinking soda, eating cake, or tasting BBQ ribs; the chef has very little in the way of protections. If someone buys your wedding cake with a sign on the door that says "we dont serve gays" and throws it at Westboro Baptists; the baker has no real legal protections on how the cake is used.

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RE: Your food may be copyrigted... - 8/24/2015 11:50:32 AM

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One could not copy right food.

Monsanto has with "Round-Up Ready Soybeans".

ps: I am still waiting for you to bring me up to speed on the issues that Mr. Musk has yet to deal with in his quest for more and better battery power.
I got my scientific dictionary out just in case you use any big words that I can't cipher out.

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RE: Your food may be copyrigted... - 8/24/2015 1:36:19 PM

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One could not copy right food.

Monsanto has with "Round-Up Ready Soybeans".

well.. you are making the assumption that Monsanto "Round-Up Ready Soybeans" is food.. its really a Glyphosate sales & profit system..

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RE: Your food may be copyrigted... - 8/24/2015 8:04:37 PM

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well.. you are making the assumption that Monsanto "Round-Up Ready Soybeans" is food.. its really a Glyphosate sales & profit system..

You are kinda cute when you talk dirty.

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RE: Your food may be copyrigted... - 8/25/2015 7:28:01 AM

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A chef might be able to claim a copyright for a specific recipe, but not for a picture of the finished product that results from that recipe - unless that specific photo is already included as an illustration in a cookbook published by the chef.

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