There is no copyright on recipes (in most of the world) as there is on words or software. Still, this was no barrier to the Copenhagen-based art collective Superflex to release an open source recipe for beer.
Writing in Wired, Laurence Lessig the father of the Creative Commons license says: “What makes Free Beer free is the same thing that makes free software free: Its recipe is open and licensed freely. Anyone can make improvements. But anyone who distributes an improved version must release the changes as well.”
Every six months the brewery will cook up a new version of the recipe and put it on sale.
I’d love to see one our local microbreweries join this social experiment. Come on guys.
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