A chicken sandwich cannot be copyrighted, court rules

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...
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