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Malaysia Seeking to Copyright Food?
Techdirt is reporting that Malaysia seems to be jumping on the copyright/trademark bandwagon and attempting to protect the "ownership" of certain ethnic foods. Of course, this may just be a massive PR push in an attempt to grab some eyeballs. "Last year, around this time, we noted that the country of Lebanon was trying to claim that it owns hummus and other middle eastern foods, such as falafel, tabouleh and baba gannouj, and that no other country could produce them. It seems that other parts of the world are seeing the same sort of thing, as Malaysia is trying to declare that it owns popular Malaysian dishes, like nasi lemak."
Worry not, there will be cheap knockoffs coming out of China soon enough.
I don't think anyone is going to challenge Scotland's copyright of haggis.
The problem with socialism is that they always run out of other people's money. - Margaret Thatcher
RMS has been making recipe analogies (with respect to free software) for decades. Finally, the until-recently-lawless world of cooking is catching up with the highly developed and modern law-abiding world of software. That will teach our bearded gourmet! There's no free(-as-in-speech) lunch!
Ezekiel 23:20
I hereby copyright the idea of putting chocolate pieces into a cookie -- pizza fillings inside pastry dough available for microwave or oven bake -- and the idea of diet sodas.
let's see how this goes over
"i lost my dignity on a slippery wiener"
First those silly and outdated child labor laws, now this.
Yes, but won't you just be hungry again in an hour if you eat one?
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I am "steaking" a claim on Prime Rib, in the name of the United States of America! We will not give up this wonderful, artery-clogging delicacy!
Meh. They all look the same to me.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
I don't know about you but I'd take some Vermont on my pancakes any day...
Techdirt is reporting that Malaysia seems to be jumping on the copyright/trademark bandwagon and attempting to protect the "ownership" of certain ethnic foods. Of course, this may just be a massive PR push in an attempt to grab some eyeballs.
Now, I've heard of some weird foreign foods, but is that some kind of Malaysian delicacy?
But see, McDonald's is already 10 steps ahead of you there - when franchisees complained about the cost of a "double cheeseburger" ("universally" recognized as a sandwich with 2 hamburger patties and 2 slices of cheese) then on the Dollar Menu, they created a "new" sandwich with 2 patties, 1 slice of cheese and called it the "McDouble," moving the "double cheeseburger" up to something like $1.29 and putting the "McDouble" on the Dollar Menu.
And, speaking of Malaysia, they already go after anyone with "Mc" in the name - so no trademarking "McSandwich" or "McBreadWithMeat" or "McDoubleMcMeatProductWithMcCheeseProduct."
I'd take some Vermont on my pancakes any day
Would you like the sandy loam or the loose clay?
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Let me get you a "facial tissue" to help with that runny nose.
Oh wait, of course I meant "Kleenex".
With the first link, the chain is forged.
1. Hamburg gets a PDO on Hamburger
2. Attempts to licence to McDonalds
3. McDonalds starts calling them Beefburgers
4. No profit
Look, that's just putting a band-aid on the problem. You can't just xerox a product to make an identical copy.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
What I found truly popular in the disparate countries I visited is fried chicken. Don't care how poor or rich the country, if they are a target market for KFC, you'd see groups of fat people gorging on buckets of them.
Fried Chicken©!!!
The devastating 1-2 combo with: Potato Chip©.
We are now THE global IP superpower. Take that all you fat foreign bastards, I mean, our valued customers!
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
"The recipe for Stilton Cheese [stiltoncheese.com] is well known, but you can only call it Stilton if it has been made in the three Counties of Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire. It cannot be made in the village of Stilton that gave it its name since, at the time the EU came up with the definition, it had been forgotten that it had ever been produced there!"
But wait, there is more.
- it can only be produced in the three Counties of Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire
- it must be made from locally produced milk that has been pasteurised before use
- it can only be made in a cylindrical shape
- it must be allowed to form its own coat or crust
- it must never be pressed and
- it must have the magical blue veins radiating from the centre of the cheese
Stilton actually contains magic. Stilton cheese is awesome!
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