Food taste 'not protected by copyright' rules EU court
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Re: Food taste 'not protected by copyright' rules EU court
#2Funny the article made no mention of smell, which one might suspect would be treated in a similar way.
Re: Food taste 'not protected by copyright' rules EU court
#3Funny the article made no mention of smell, which one might suspect would be treated in a similar way.
In the United States, smell copyright is well-established case law. Smells can be copyrighted if they're not a functional part of the product. Perfume no, smell added to shovels to distinguish your brand, sure.
Edit: Trademark, not copyright, damn it!
Re: Food taste 'not protected by copyright' rules EU court
#4Funny the article made no mention of smell, which one might suspect would be treated in a similar way.
In the United States, smell copyright is well-established case law. Smells can be copyrighted if they're not a functional part of the product. Perfume no, smell added to shovels to distinguish your brand, sure. Edit: Trademark, not copyright, damn it!
Is that copyright or trademark?
Re: Food taste 'not protected by copyright' rules EU court
#5This is a strange common sense ruling from the EU, which is most often the lapdog of copyright trolls.
Re: Food taste 'not protected by copyright' rules EU court
#6Funny the article made no mention of smell, which one might suspect would be treated in a similar way.
In the United States, smell copyright is well-established case law. Smells can be copyrighted if they're not a functional part of the product. Perfume no, smell added to shovels to distinguish your brand, sure. Edit: Trademark, not copyright, damn it!
That's surprising. Smells to distinguish your brand seems more like a trademark than a copyright...
Re: Food taste 'not protected by copyright' rules EU court
#7Funny the article made no mention of smell, which one might suspect would be treated in a similar way.
In the United States, smell copyright is well-established case law. Smells can be copyrighted if they're not a functional part of the product. Perfume no, smell added to shovels to distinguish your brand, sure. Edit: Trademark, not copyright, damn it!
If Oracle gets its way, code smells will be copyrightable as well.
Re: Food taste 'not protected by copyright' rules EU court
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
In the United States, smell copyright is well-established case law. Smells can be copyrighted if they're not a functional part of the product. Perfume no, smell added to shovels to distinguish your brand, sure. Edit: Trademark, not copyright, damn it!
If Oracle gets its way, code smells will be copyrightable as well.
smells like burnt money
Re: Food taste 'not protected by copyright' rules EU court
#9Well, different people have different taste buds, how are you going to make sure there is a universally agreed representation, of taste?
Re: Food taste 'not protected by copyright' rules EU court
#10This is a strange common sense ruling from the EU, which is most often the lapdog of copyright trolls.
Trolling much? :)
The EU does stupid things from time to time, but generally I think the EU gets things reasonably right..
Getting rid of roaming charges was huge! Not adding software parents was huge! GDRP has pros/cons, mostly it's a problem that people think they comply by making consent popups.
But yes, aspect of current copyright reform and cookie law is stupid. But only aspects -- who knows maybe we can fix them :)