RE: [dvd-discuss] OT: Copyright on ingredient list?

[Richard Hartman <hartman(at)onetouch.com>]

I wonder if that notice is relevant to the Bob Kolodny case.  Information
can be found on http://www.guerrillanews.com/cocakarma/.  Note that this
site is definately a fringe site, and I recommend just skipping the rest of
the site, especially the opinion pieces.  However, the Kolodny section seems
to be a well written account of this man's fight in the courts and is not
opinion based.

-- 
-Richard M. Hartman
hartman@onetouch.com

186,000 mi./sec ... not just a good idea, it's the LAW!


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kroll, Dave [mailto:Dave_Kroll@cargilldow.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 7:59 AM
> To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> Subject: [dvd-discuss] OT: Copyright on ingredient list?
> 
> 
> Sort of offtopic, but it's amazing how the more of this you 
> pay attention
> to, the more you see.
> 
> I was drinking a can of Diet Coke® yesterday, and noticed 
> that "near" the
> ingredient list was a copyright notice.  (©1997).  It was 
> perpendicular to
> the ingredients, so may not have been referring to them, but 
> that's what it
> seemed to be notifying.  My can of Pepsi®, on the other hand, had some
> trademark notices, but no copyright notice. 
> 
> I wonder what Coke is trying to protect, and why they are 
> bothering.  If I
> were to manufacture a cola with the same ranking of ingredients (and
> therefore the same ingredient list), would they try to sue me for
> infringement?  Or do I have to invoke a fair use defense in 
> order to state,
> "Diet Coke contains Aspartame"?  Bizarre.
> 
> 
> David Kroll 
>