Photographing meals - intellectual property theft?
Mar 10, 2014, 2:21 am
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Photographing meals - intellectual property theft?
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/201...property.shtml
If I have a long tasting menu dinner I will take pics from my iPhone so that I remember everything the next day, especially if I'm gong to write a review of the meal. Never would have crossed my mind that some would frown upon it.
If I have a long tasting menu dinner I will take pics from my iPhone so that I remember everything the next day, especially if I'm gong to write a review of the meal. Never would have crossed my mind that some would frown upon it.
Mar 10, 2014, 7:34 am
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How is photographing food that you paid for and are about to consume considered theft? I mean, unless you know the exact ingredients in the exact quantities how could you possibly reproduce it exactly?
The idea is pathetic.
Why you would want to photograph food is a different topic
The idea is pathetic.
Why you would want to photograph food is a different topic
Mar 10, 2014, 8:52 am
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In a similar vein, at a few restaurants in China, my Chinese counterparts took plenty of photos of their meals, but when I did it I suddenly entered scorn city.
Regardless of these instances, I've had more success overseas than with UA...
Mar 10, 2014, 10:29 am
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I wouldn't consider it theft. A photograph might give some indication of ingredients, but would tell a very incomplete story. Not to mention it wouldn't give you much indication about the cooking time and temperature.
Hard to believe anyone would get worked up about this, but to each his own.
Hard to believe anyone would get worked up about this, but to each his own.
Mar 10, 2014, 11:38 am
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Methinks that none of these chefs have gone to law school.
Photographing a meal is no more intellectual property theft than taking a picture of a model or of a building.
Sure, it's the chef's prerogative to say, "No photos, please." And I believe it's unethical for a chef to copy a dish that is novel or unique and pass it off as his own. But 99.9% of cooking is derivative of cooking that came before it. If a chef thinks that photographing a meal is intellectual property theft, then that chef is also guilty of "stealing" from every chef who came before him/her and cooked remotely similar items.
Photographing a meal is no more intellectual property theft than taking a picture of a model or of a building.
Sure, it's the chef's prerogative to say, "No photos, please." And I believe it's unethical for a chef to copy a dish that is novel or unique and pass it off as his own. But 99.9% of cooking is derivative of cooking that came before it. If a chef thinks that photographing a meal is intellectual property theft, then that chef is also guilty of "stealing" from every chef who came before him/her and cooked remotely similar items.
Mar 10, 2014, 10:22 pm
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I was a chef for a long time. I never had a problem with people photographing my dishes ( or giving out recipes for that matter.) People may have been inspired by the dish but it is impossible to exactly recreate a dish from a picture.
I have done it myself, when I was traveling and had a particularly interesting dish. I do think its a little weird as a diner when someone at a nearby table repeatedly takes pictures of the bread basket, their beverage and everything else that crosses the table.
I have done it myself, when I was traveling and had a particularly interesting dish. I do think its a little weird as a diner when someone at a nearby table repeatedly takes pictures of the bread basket, their beverage and everything else that crosses the table.
Mar 10, 2014, 10:26 pm
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They should stick to cooking instead of what is deemed intellectual property. After all, very few places protect celebrities from having paparazzi hound them for pictures. Perhaps those chefs should stop making their dishes look so great or like such a work of art, because if they looked ordinary, no one would take pictures of them.
Mar 12, 2014, 5:07 pm
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What are they trying to hide? 
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These chefs should have their food photographed after it has just left the digestive tract. I'd probably have a caption such as "The chef prohibited photography prior to consumption of the food, so this is the best photographic representative example of what it looked like."
That should have people waiting in line for these chefs' self important food.
That should have people waiting in line for these chefs' self important food.