Cookies! / Impounding and Destruction

From: Paul Robinson <PAUL[_at_]TDR.COM>
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1994 22:19:30 -0500 (EST)

From: Paul Robinson <PAUL[_at_]TDR.COM>
Organization: Tansin A. Darcos & Company, Silver Spring, MD USA

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"Dr. Paul E. Filmer" <filmer[_at_]usra.edu>, writes in CNI Copyright List <cni-copyright[_at_]cni.org>, about the "cookie recipe".

Dr. Filmer, the "two fifty" cookie recipe is an Urban Legend. Yours happens to say it happened at Neiman Marcus (a Dallas department store known for selling outrageous and unusual things), while other versions have had it from private parties, Mrs. Fields Cookies, and maybe three or four other places.

The only thing that remains constant is the price - two fifty - and that it was a mistaken price, charged to the person's Visa card when they thought it was $2.50.

This story has been floating around on and off the net for the better part of five years when I first heard about it.

The errors are obvious in that if you charge anything on a credit card, the amount has to be printed on the slip, or the merchant cannot be reimbursed if the cardholder complains. (If you charge something by phone, and the merchant can't prove you ordered it, the merchant eats the charge.)

Now, for an actual Copyright item to bring this discussion back into focus:

Building plans are copyrightable and creating a building without the consent of the owner of the plan *is* infringement. Some copyright laws permit "impounding and destruction" of infringing articles. Should the owner of an infringed copyrighted building plan be able to demand the destruction of an infringing building? :)

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Paul Robinson - Paul[_at_]TDR.COM
Voted "Largest Polluter of the (IETF) list" by Randy Bush <randy[_at_]psg.com>


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