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Re:Cease and desist for video on how to make “Grana Padano S... by MakersF on Friday November 27, 2020 @05:14AM (#25227253)
I think it's important to notice that the point is not to keep how to make the cheese secret. The recipe for the cheese is actually encoded in the law, and you can download it freely ( https://www.parmigianoreggiano.com/it/consorzio-disciplinare..., in italian). During lockdown I was trying to make a regional cheese, and the law was the best recipe I could find, with extremely detailed steps.

I think they are trying to discourage the usage of "something style" naming, as consumers associate the "something" with the knock off. I saw it a lot in recent years in the UK, even knowledgeable people end up buying "parmesan style" cheese and refer to it as parmesan, when the taste is not the same.

To protect the name in general, they might be going after every instance of the "style" usage, even if in this case it's clear there is no intention to trick, and probably no commercial incentive.

Re:Cease and desist for video on how to make “Grana Padano S... by avhon1 on Friday November 27, 2020 @06:02AM (#25227591)
> trying to discourage the usage of "something style" naming

The law prohibits exactly this. From the Wikipedia article [1]:

[Under Protected Geographical Status laws] it is also prohibited to combine the indication with words such as "style", "type", "imitation", or "method" in connection with the protected indications

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_indications_and_t...

Re:Cease and desist for video on how to make “Grana Padano S... by Asooka on Friday November 27, 2020 @09:07AM (#25228785)
But that should only apply to products, not to video titles describing how to execute the recipe, right? Otherwise I guess you could title the video "how to make cheese using the official recipe for Grana Padano, with the understanding that this will not result in Grana Padano cheese"
Re:Cease and desist for video on how to make “Grana Padano S... by _jal on Friday November 27, 2020 @08:29AM (#25228531)
I expect to see a video on "How to make edible dairy product that is absolutely nothing like Grana Padano" by the weekend.
Re:Cease and desist for video on how to make “Grana Padano S... by wayoutthere on Friday November 27, 2020 @09:28AM (#25228923)
“The Makers of Grana Padano do NOT Want You to See This!!!”
Re:Cease and desist for video on how to make “Grana Padano S... by qalmakka on Friday November 27, 2020 @06:18PM (#25233456)
In the end, they realized they royally screwed up and the Grana Padano Consortium wrote him an apology:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xy_KkZDiTE

Re:Cease and desist for video on how to make “Grana Padano S... by TwoBit on Friday November 27, 2020 @09:56AM (#25229142)
In his followip video he says he will find subtle ways to refer to what he is cloning.
Re:Cease and desist for video on how to make “Grana Padano S... by s_dev on Friday November 27, 2020 @09:16AM (#25228848)
"I can't believe it's not butter"!
Re:Cease and desist for video on how to make “Grana Padano S... by pjmorris on Friday November 27, 2020 @09:39AM (#25229015)
"I can't believe it's not Grana Padano!"
Re:Cease and desist for video on how to make “Grana Padano S... by thrwn_frthr_awy on Friday November 27, 2020 @10:57AM (#25229670)
Trader Joe’s calls their almond milk “almond beverage” because of lawsuits from the dairy industry.
Re:Cease and desist for video on how to make “Grana Padano S... by raverbashing on Friday November 27, 2020 @08:20AM (#25228458)
Interestingly, the article mentions that the protection in Australia applies to wines but not Cheese
Re:Cease and desist for video on how to make “Grana Padano S... by blunte on Friday November 27, 2020 @09:58AM (#25229165)
Can't imagine why Australian wine needs protection... Who would try to copy it?
Re:Cease and desist for video on how to make “Grana Padano S... by sulam on Friday November 27, 2020 @02:09PM (#25231674)
Sorry, gonna go out on a limb and say you don’t try a lot of wines. Australia has some really great wines, both reds (Shiraz) and more recently whites (their Chardonnays are as good most of Napa’s). Their wine production is ~half of the USA, despite their much lower population and they export quite a lot of it (40 or 50%, I forget the exact number).
Re:Cease and desist for video on how to make “Grana Padano S... by wolco2 on Friday November 27, 2020 @03:37PM (#25232358)
China just put 200% duties on any wine products from Australia so it might be a good time to import the excess.
Re:Cease and desist for video on how to make “Grana Padano S... by ryall on Friday November 27, 2020 @12:28PM (#25230625)
Armagh Shiraz would like a word...
Re:Cease and desist for video on how to make “Grana Padano S... by klipt on Friday November 27, 2020 @12:24PM (#25230580)
So just use a green screen to make it look like you're in Italy and call your video "How to make Grana Padano"?
Re:Cease and desist for video on how to make “Grana Padano S... by mamuf on Friday November 27, 2020 @04:50PM (#25232882)
...and learn Italian as well.
Re:Cease and desist for video on how to make “Grana Padano S... by ed25519FUUU on Friday November 27, 2020 @10:46AM (#25229559)
The legal thing and more common thing in the US is “Compare with <brand X>”, which doesn’t imply equality but does give away that it’s some kind of clone
Re:Cease and desist for video on how to make “Grana Padano S... by mytailorisrich on Friday November 27, 2020 @02:58PM (#25232085)
That's when naming products.

This video only shows how to follow a recipe.

Re:Cease and desist for video on how to make “Grana Padano S... by xfiz on Friday November 27, 2020 @01:58PM (#25231595)
I'd be curious about a legal opinion, but as far as I understand it, the restrictions would only apply to actual commercial products. But he isn't actually selling the cheese as far as I know (only selling a video how to make the cheese).