This article on the BoingBoing site is another example of what I consider to be abusive use of the copyright laws.  A bakery was forced to stop taking outside images from customers to be reproduced in edible icing on birthday cakes for children.  The bakery used to allow customers to bring in a child's favorite image, be it a toy, a cartoon character, or whatever, and transfer that image to a cake.  The resulting image, I might add, would end up dissolved in someone's stomach within a day or two, so it's not as though it would exactly be causing great financial hardship if the cake happened to depict something like, say, Nemo from the Disney movie.

Still think copyright law isn't going too far?

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