What’s next–copyrighting food?

Panicked chefs propose copyrighted food

Megnut food blog points to a moral panic among chefs reacting to plagiarism of their recipes and presentation — cooks who propose that they should be able to copyright food. Not that they should have a remedy for plagiarism, but that ways of preparing food should be owned, frozen in amber, usable only with permission

See also Keep Recipes Free; and Disney exec: Piracy is just a business model (thanks to Vince Daliessio)

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3:45 pm on October 10, 2006