[Sca-cooks] Dessert plagiarism

[Terry Decker]

This is the algorithm for making bread and as such can't be copyrighted.  As 
you point out the specific words describing how one executes the algorithm 
can be copyrighted.  As a process, it's patentable, but there is definitive 
evidence of prior use, so that a patent is demostrably invalid.

Bear


> However if it is take water, flour, yeast, knead, let rise, form into 
> loaves, let rise again, then bake - you can copyright it but it probably 
> wouldn't stand up to a legal challenge.
> Unique and specific.
>
> Eduardo