Copy-protecting food and pets

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In Food and Wine Magazine, Pete Wells looks at chefs securing copyright and patent protection for their culinary creations: New Era of the Recipe Burglar: "Copyrighting recipes may be the most radical idea to hit the food world since the invention of the menu. Such a system would apply to all chefs, not just those in the avant-garde; to qualify for a copyright, a dish would have to be original, but it wouldn’t have to redefine the very notion of food."

On her blog, Wendy Seltzer reports on pets that come with restrictive purchase agreements: Coming Soon: Kitten with a EULA?

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