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Tuesday, August 25, 2015

A Chicken Sandwich Cannot be Copyrighted, Court Rules

ArsTechnica: There are many things you can copyright, but a chicken sandwich is not one of them, a US appeals court panel ruled Friday.

Because of the ruling, a former employee of a fried chicken franchise is not entitled to a percentage of the profits from a sandwich he "authored," wrote Chief Judge Jeffrey Howard in the decision of the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. The plaintiff, Norberto Colón Lorenzana, had filed a complaint seeking "All the earnings produced by his creation"—an amount not less than $10 million.

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