Mueen Nawaz <m.n### [at] ieeeorg> wrote:
> I'm told that stuff like the Coca Cola recipe is such an example.

  At least here things like recipes have absolutely zero protection
from law. You can't patent recipes, nor can you get copyright on them,
or any other protection for that matter.

  For example, it's completely legal to take eg. an entire book of recipes,
copy every single one of them to your own book, and publish it. As long as
you don't copy it *verbatim* (ie. you change the layout and wording), you
are not infringing anything.

  (This little fact gives a whole new ironical light to the fact that
if you use something like 10 consecutive notes from a copyrighted song,
amounting to something like 5 seconds, and publish your own rendition of
it, you can get sued and jailed.)

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