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[DMCA-Activists] German Chef Seeks Copyright for Recipes
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Seth Johnson |
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[DMCA-Activists] German Chef Seeks Copyright for Recipes |
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Mon, 13 Feb 2006 12:30:02 -0500 |
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Subject: [A2k] German star chef asks for copyright-like right on
recipes
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:59:01 í
From: "Georg C. F. Greve" <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
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FYI.
Copyright spreading into the area
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http://www.fsfe.org/fellows/greve/freedom_bits/the_invention_of_cookyright
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The invention of cookyright
greve
Monday 13 February 2006
German cook asking to introduce copyright-like right for recipes.
Remember the parody about Cold Pizza Piracy? Here is another
one, only this time it is not a joke. Imagine yourself in the
year 2025, you open your virtual mail box and the certified
document printer spews out the following:
Dear consumer,
it has been brought to the attention of the Guild of Guide
Michelin approved restaurants (GOGMA) that you have violated the
cookyright of its star chefs, as defined under directive
2008/29/EC.
Law-abiding visitors of your appartement informed us that you
violated in particular the recipes "zucchini flower I+II" of chef
Heinz Beck, whose family is thus deprived their sustenance by
your piracy. You furthermore violated the moral rights of chef
Heinz Beck by not using any cardamom, which is a small but
important trace substance in these dishes.
As you know from the legal information provided to you when
dining at our restaurants, which you signed together with your
pre-dining bill, you are in particular NOT AUTHORISED to ANALYSE,
IMITATE, COOK FOR YOURSELF AND OTHERS, LEARN FROM or be INSPIRED
BY recipes provided to you by THE RESTAURANT.
This act constitutes copyright infringement of the most serious
kind. According to Directive 2001/29/EC of the European
Parliament, GOGMA orders you to destroy your circumvention
device, colloquially known as kitchen, and will further take
legal action against those who supplied you with said
circumvention device.
Violation of cookyright deprives thousands of restaurant owners
of their living, and harms the food industry, one of the largest
employers worldwide.
GOGMA therefore finds itself forced to set you a one week
deadline to comply with this order, effective immediately.
S. Hark
GAGOGMA
(General Attorney of Guild of Guide Michelin approved
restaurants)
It may sound ridiculous, but only seems like the logical
consequence of what I read in the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ)
today:
German star-cook Heinz Beck of the restaurant "La Pergola" in
Rome asks to introduce a copyright on cooking recipes. His
argument is based on cooking also being a creative form of
art. Naturally, no matter how stupid the idea, someone will
always go for it. In this case Giorgio Assuma, head of the
Italian Collecting Society (SIAE). FSFE already had the
displeasure of meeting this group in relation to Italian law
248/2000, which makes it quite hard to distribute any software
legally in Italy.
Now Giorgio Assuma considers "culinaric art a serious issue"
and asks for a EU directive to introduce a kind of cookyright.
One can only marvel at the horrors of a European Cookyright
Directive.
Chef Heinz Beck claims he only wants the credit and no money
from people who cook his dishes. But how much will the
creation of a cookyright administration cost, how effective
will it be at tracking authorship and forcing proper credits -
- and who will pay all that?
Furthermore: will other chefs see this the same way, what
opinion will the collecting societies for cookyrights have,
and how he himself will feel if his restaurant is one day not
doing as well anymore and someone else runs a successful
restaurant, cooking some of his creations.
Maybe he'd be better off with publishing his creations early,
making sure the world knows what he has tried, and thus
obtaining his place in cooking history. Future generations
should in any case thank him for not pursuing the idea of
cookyright -- I hope.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-
ShareAlike 2.5 License.
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Georg C. F. Greve
<address@hidden>
Free Software Foundation Europe
(http://fsfeurope.org)
Join the Fellowship and protect your freedom!
(http://www.fsfe.org)
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