GUY TRIES TO "COPYRIGHT" A CHICKEN SANDWICH

Norberto Colón Lorenzana, a former employee of the Church’s Chicken franchise, put a fried chicken breast patty, lettuce, tomato, American cheese, and garlic mayonnaise on a bun, and called it a Pechu Sandwich. When Church’s Chicken started selling them, Norberto claimed the sandwich was “a creative work, of which he is the author,” and sued for copyright infringement and “all the earnings produced by his creation” – an amount not less than $10 million. Sadly, the U.S. Court of Appeals said the Copyright Act protects works of authorship in eight categories, none of which includes chicken breasts placed between two slices of bread. The Copyright Act does protect literary works, musical works, dramatic works, sound recordings, architectural works, and a few other categories.
* If only he had set the chicken sandwich to music.
* I guess he could try writing a hit song about his court case.
* Well, crap. There goes my million-dollar idea for deep-frying strips of potato.
* Of course if you’re a big corporation that invents a new genetic life-form you can patent that, but that’s different.
* In other words, if the chicken were genetically altered, this guy would have a case.
* Come on, it’s a nice sounding sandwich but he didn’t exactly reinvent the wheel here.
* it doesn’t even have a snazzy set of initials like the BLT.
* Thank God they ruled against him. Imagine what we’d have to pay to whoever came up with peanut butter and jelly?