{"id":38143,"date":"2019-11-20T16:47:40","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T16:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setterwalls.se\/article\/a-taste-may-be-unique-but-it-is-not-subject-to-copyright-protection\/"},"modified":"2022-02-14T13:42:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T13:42:03","slug":"a-taste-may-be-unique-but-it-is-not-subject-to-copyright-protection","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/setterwalls.se\/en\/article\/a-taste-may-be-unique-but-it-is-not-subject-to-copyright-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"A taste may be unique but it is not subject to copyright protection."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The EU Court concludes that a taste of a food cannot be protected by copyright. Interpreting national legislation in a way that results in copyright protection for such a taste is thus not compliant with EU-law. This is evident from the EU Court\u2019s preliminary ruling of November 13th in C-310\/17 between Levola Hengelo BV and Smilde Foods BV. The reason is that a taste cannot constitute a work since it cannot be specified with precision and objectivity. Instead a taste is defined based on subjective taste sensations and experiences that may vary between people and over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EU Court concludes that a taste of a food cannot be protected by copyright. Interpreting national legislation in a way that results in copyright protection for such a taste is thus not compliant with EU-law. This is evident from the EU Court\u2019s preliminary ruling of November 13th in C-310\/17 between Levola Hengelo BV and Smilde Foods BV. The reason is that a taste cannot constitute a work since it cannot be specified with precision and objectivity. Instead a taste is defined based on subjective taste sensations and experiences that may vary between people and over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34365,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":""},"article_category":[1058],"class_list":["post-38143","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_category-life-sciences-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setterwalls.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/articles\/38143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setterwalls.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/articles"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setterwalls.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/articles"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setterwalls.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setterwalls.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setterwalls.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setterwalls.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_category?post=38143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}