[Ansteorra] A Storm is Brewing

[Michelle Dodd]

We had a lawsuit locally recently that lends itself to this discussion. A restaurant manager had left his job, gone a couple of miles down the street & opened his own restaurant, with very similar recipes. When the first restaurant tried to sue, the judge said that recipes can't be copyrighted due to the fact that they can be de-constructed to a similar result.
 
But articles, even published on the web, can and usually are copyrighted. So the editor besides being rude, was just stupid.

Gabriele

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are allowed to remain children all our lives. (Albert Einstein)


 

> To: ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org
> From: rose_welch at yahoo.com
> Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 03:29:17 +0000
> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] A Storm is Brewing
> 
> Yes, I read the editor's horrible reply, where she acted as though she were God's gift to typographical errors.
> 
> -R
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Toscano <liamstliam at gmail.com>
> Sender: ansteorra-bounces+rose_welch=yahoo.com at lists.ansteorra.orgDate: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 23:26:38 
> To: Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc.<ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Reply-To: "Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] A Storm is Brewing
> 
> And then the editor was incredibly rude to Monica when she called them on
> it.
> 
> That was the biggest error. The vanity of it all.
> 
> Liam
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:14 PM, Dana Busenbark <danab-steppes at earthlink.net
> > wrote:
> 
> > It wasn't that they took the recipes, it was that they took a whole
> > article, fixed a couple of wording issues/problems and then published it.
> >
> >
> > On Nov 4, 2010, at 10:11 PM, rose_welch at yahoo.com wrote:
> >
> > > I have to say that recipes themselves cannot be copyrighted, and if the
> > wording was substantially changed, then it was most certainly not copyright
> > infringement.
> > >
> > > However, it was absolutely moral plagiarism, and the editor deserves
> > every bit of what they are getting.
> > >
> > > There are times that I shake my head at the Internet, and other times,
> > like this, that I am filled with glee. :P
> > >
> > > -R
> > >
> > > Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
> > >
> >