[HN Gopher] You can't copyright a cocktail, so what's a creative... ___________________________________________________________________ You can't copyright a cocktail, so what's a creative bartender to do? (2019) Author : Tomte Score : 5 points Date : 2022-08-11 04:02 UTC (3 days ago) (HTM) web link (arstechnica.com) (TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com) | codefreeordie wrote: | You can't copyright cocktails or other recipes because copyright | only protects the artistic expression, not the mechanical | process. | | Cocktails could conceivably be patentable, if they were | sufficiently novel and non-obvious, which very few cocktails are | likely to be. | | If you used a sufficiently visually distinctive glass and created | a fanciful name, you might be eligible for trademark protection | -- that wouldn't stop someone making the same cocktail, but would | prevent them using your identical glassware and name in a way | that might lead to confusion that the cocktail was approved by | you. | | Oh! And if you choreographed an interesting process of making the | drink, with a specific sequence of unnecessary but distinctive | motions (think "bartender dance"), you could copyright your | performances of the dance act and possibly prevent others from | stealing your show. The less elaborate your performance, the less | protection you're likely to get, and copyright doesn't prevent, | for example, parody. | | But generally, intellectual property rights are not intended to | vest in ordinary creations like mixed drinks. | OJFord wrote: | Are collections copyrightable? Knowing that recipes aren't I've | wondered before why (sufficiently popular to make it | worthwhile) recipe books aren't a race to the bottom with | cheaper clones. | | The smart move of course (employed e.g. by Delia Smith) is to | publish them for free online too. I own one of hers but for | convenience sometimes check a recipe I've found in it on my | phone, so far they've all been there so I think it's complete. | HideousKojima wrote: | Your best bet is to keep the ingredients secret. But like with | all things, the Simpsons already did it: | | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaming_Moe%27s ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-08-14 23:01 UTC)