Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 13:32:20 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it>, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: correction (Re: Use of the UNIX Trademark) Message-ID: <20011011133220.C21489@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <xzpg08qfmzk.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@ofug.org on Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 01:13:35PM %2B0200 References: <000601c15084$87edd360$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <1002663600.3bc36eb096ee5@webmail.neomedia.it> <20011009231343.C387@blossom.cjclark.org> <1002731960.3bc479b899603@webmail.neomedia.it> <20011010140126.M387@blossom.cjclark.org> <20011010233539.G83192@lpt.ens.fr> <20011010234034.A93727@lpt.ens.fr> <xzpg08qfmzk.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav said on Oct 11, 2001 at 13:13:35: > Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> writes: > > Rahul Siddharthan said on Oct 10, 2001 at 23:35:39: > > > knockoffs. Of course, food recipes and clothing designs are > > > protected by copyright, and never have been. > > Are *not* protected by copyright, I meant. > > Yes, I believe they are, but the processes they describe aren't, so > you can publish a cookbook with recipes you collected from other > cookbooks as long as you rewrite them in your own words. That was the point: the dish prepared by the cordon bleu chef is not copyrighted. Whereas, Mickey Mouse is; you can't retell the cartoon story in your own words; you can't even use the Mickey Mouse character. In the context of patents, it's the argument of product patent versus process patent. Countries like India have long allowed process patents on pharmaceuticals (like copyrighting the recipe), but WTO rules mandate product patents (like copyrighting the dish). R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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