[HN Gopher] You can't copyright a cocktail, so what's a creative...
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       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)
        
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       | 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
        
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