Legal professionals for a podcast Three Meals Recollections have reportedly contacted SBS over an upcoming meals sequence Memory Bites with Matt Moran.
Within the sequence celebrities replicate on pivotal moments of their life by means of their most cherished dishes.
Moran is joined by Richard Roxburgh, Pia Miranda, Ross Noble, Danielle Cormack, Courtney Act and Christine Anu.
However the Day by day Telegraph stories attorneys for Sydney caterer and occasion organiser Savva Savas have contacted SBS round similarities to his podcast Three Meals Recollections, together with the usage of the phrase ‘reminiscence’ and the format tying in visitor tales with a major meals reminiscence. It has featured Ita Buttrose, Natalie Imbruglia, Stephanie Alexander … and Pia Miranda.
Moran stated, in an SBS press launch, “Meals has this unimaginable skill to take us again to defining moments in our lives. In Reminiscence Bites, I get to uncover the tales and recollections behind some really particular dishes with some wonderful Aussies. It’s all about nice meals, nice firm, and people unforgettable moments that remind us why meals is so highly effective in bringing us collectively.”
“Reminiscence Bites with Matt Moran takes a brand new spin on meals programming, mixing nostalgia with nice twists on recipes,” an SBS spokesperson stated.
“The sequence dives into how defining meals recollections, and the folks behind them, have formed the lives and careers of well-known visitors. That is an authentic new format and SBS is certain viewers gained’t combine up the present with the podcast.”
Leisure Lawyer Shaun Miller additionally advised TV Tonight, Copyright regulation doesn’t shield broad brush themes or concepts. Copyright regulation solely protects the expression of concepts in a fabric type.
“The overall idea of interviewing celebrities and public figures about their memorable meals will not be protected by copyright regulation. In any occasion, Matt Moran’s present “Reminiscence Bites” is a TV format whereas “Three Meals Recollections” is a podcast. There aren’t any so-called format rights connected to Savva Savas ‘ “Three Meals Recollections” – format rights are very tough to implement in Australian regulation,” he stated.
“The truth that the title of Matt Moran’s present has the phrase “Reminiscence” and Savva Savas’ podcast has the work “Recollections” won’t allow Savva Savas to have authorized redress. There is no such thing as a copyright safety for titles of applications. The phrases Reminiscence/Recollections are descriptive of the content material of the applications. Nobody has the correct to monopolise descriptive phrases within the English language.
“Beneath Australian commerce practices regulation, an organization is prohibited in participating in deceptive and misleading conduct. It’s not credible to say that viewers of Matt Moran’s tv sequence will probably be misled or deceived into considering they’re watching a program that’s associated to Savva Savas’ podcast.
“The upshot is that Matt Moran is on protected authorized floor.”
Reminiscence Bites with Matt Moran premieres Monday 10 March at 7.30pm on SBS Meals
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