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Worth mentioning that recipes cannot hold copyright in the US for this same reason. (By recipe I mean the functional list of ingredients and directions.) https
by jdmichal 7y ago
Worth mentioning that recipes cannot hold copyright in the US for this same reason. (By recipe I mean the functional list of ingredients and directions.)
https://paleoflourish.com/recipe-copyright/#protected https://paleoflourish.com/recipe-copyright/#protected
- dredmorbius 7y agoThe recipe exclusion has more to do with the functional aspects limitation of copyright. That is: copyright protects authorship and expression, but not the functional properties of a work. A recipe's failures under copyright follow both from it being a factual relation (ingredients, quantities, treatment, cooking), and a result (a finished dish or baked good). Neither of these is protected under US copyright law. See: Publications International, Ltd. v. Meredith Corp.
- jdmichal 7y agoThat case is cited in the link I included, and I even called out the functional clause? I don't see what else you're trying to say? Unless the intent is that 3D scans and recipes are not alike in copyright failing, in which case all I can say is that I don't see how a point cloud is any different a collection of factual relations (points) and a result (3D object)...