I saw this on Instagram and was instantly confused…since I don’t get how you could copyright a drink recipe? Idk

Someone needs some Xanax crushed up into their coffee. Like what? Do they know that’s not how it works?

Bahahaha after tax it's $9+ for a tall. Also, this is the dumbest thing I've read in a long time. Social media rots some people's brain I swear.

That’s ridiculous but also caramel brûlée, white mocha, vanilla bean, foam, AND drizzle that’s so baaadddd

You literally can not $1 a recipe.

IANAL, but when I hung up my apron I went into marketing and product development, so I learned some things about IP, in the US specifically.

A list of ingredients and directions is not enough to merit a US copyright. A cookbook, with a compilation of recipes is however something that can be IP-protected. Ever wonder why every food blog recipe is prefaced with a long winded story? That BS up front makes the whole page IP-protected.

This is why Coca-Cola and KFC, for example, treat their recipes like state secrets. As long as they keep it guarded and secret, those recipes have additional protection, but not copyright. They fall under “trade secret.”

Should the 11 herbs and spice blend become common knowledge, there is nothing the Colonel could do stop anyone from using it. At best, they could stop folks from using KFC trade dress and trademarks, or anything that implies endorsement, but that’s it.

Bro is really mad because someone copied their "polar expresso" drink when all they did is take a title of a popular movie and add one letter

no because it’s starbucks, you all have the same ingredients and i bet someone already came up with this idea way before this person did

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Hahah you very famously can not copyright drink recipes. And this drink looks like a pile of dumb sugary expensive shit that should be called “Piss Your Barista Off, You Pig.”

Lmfao imagine gatekeeping so hard that you think you have the copyright to a fucking Starbucks drink 😭😭😭 nah you can’t do that shit

Yeah...Starbucks has the rights on their ingredients ergo anything made from their ingredients

Calling this a flat white is a joke.

That sounds so sweet .... white mocha and carm brûlée with vanilla bean powder AND VSCCF , plus the caramel drizzle.... Absolutely not

Lmfao wants to act like this is fine art. So many people want their “special original Starbucks drink”

Holy shit go outside

lol you blurred out their handle, nice.

There is nothing special about these “secret menu items” your basically mixing Starbucks ingredients to make something you like. She said she works hard on making the names etc, drinks are easy to make. Nothing difficult about it.

Lol. Okay, try it. Try to sue us for copyright. Betcha won’t.

I wish they don’t invent drinks

it’s really not that deep lmao

mmmm someone should get them a nice glass of shut the fuck up mmmmmmmm

You cannot copyright or trademark a recipe, however you could possibly copyright or trademark the title of the recipe, or the way in which multiple recipes are arranged and put together, i.e. a cookbook.

There’s actually a fair amount of legal precedent about this. This is why big corporations like Coca-Cola and stuff guard the recipes to their products, because if anyone got ahold of it, they could replicate it without copyright law being able to stop them.

What a bozo

No lol some ppl are so brainwashed by Starbucks

How can you copyright something if you have no ownership of the product used or say on the pricing? You can’t! You do not get a cut out of creating a drink unless you’re considering you’re hourly wage. customers make drink books/ recipes all the time but don’t say its copyright because they hold no ownership over the actual product. And it the same case for this barista, they just don’t know it yet :/

Short answer: nope. Grande answer: questions of copyright would be for Starbucks to decide. Homie can open a different coffee chain and take that nonsense over there.

Let's see what happens when they try to use copyvright and the siren corrects them lmao

“I mean, come on. Lol.”

Oh my god this is hilarious thank you for sharing

We have a partner recipe box of everyone’s “specialized” drinks. I look at it now and then to see what’s new to try, but it’s usually just basic stuff. Our recipe book is awesome though! I’ve put in two myself and while I don’t expect anyone to make them, it’s fun to have for those who are stuck. This person seems very convoluted. Don’t engage.

If you want recognition for doing something originally yours with coffee, maybe don’t work at Starbucks 🤷🏻‍♂️. My plan is to eventually do my own thing and get the credit without having to even share the screen with the siren. I don’t ever plan to compete, I just want a small piece of the pie 😂

Lol no

LOL

Personally get fucked for making our jobs harder with this nonsense to begin with

Starbucks customers are the worst confirmed

$8.60 for a TALL and all that sugar?! This isn’t the hill I’d want to die on

Damn, a long ass paragraph over a hilariously expensive and non creative drink. All worked up because they thought they created something special and want to copyright it. Get your own coffee shop then, this is hilarious.

All barista ideas are automatically under ownership of the company, right?

wait til we tell them that Polar Express is not owned by her…

can she not be copyrighted for using the polar express as advertisement when she doesn’t own the polar express ….?

Wouldn't corporate Starbucks see this differently? Their brand is their own copyright regardless of what goes in it 😂

It annoys me that this is a flat white because that’s really a hot drink

gonna be real i'm more pissed at whoever wrote the sign for making every letter uppercase except for the L's in "blonde flat" it looks like it said "bionde fiat"

I promise you hun that you will not win that court case. You’d be laughed out of the room

Lol they shouldn't even be proud of such a nasty expensive drink anyways. The best drinks are tasty but refined imo.

Lol no

it is not that deep 😭

jfc

Lol people who take themselves seriously for this kind of shit are fucking morons

Lol no

All the actual lawyer stuff aside… the ingredients n stuff are owned by starbucks. Thats like getting a bag of Lays, putting them in a different bag and then claiming the product is your own. I am a barista at starbucks, im a fellow 32****** and i started last year. As a barista this sounds dumb.

This is dumb

Sure, try to sue the mermaid

Wtf is this account

Honest question. Isn’t the venti supposed to be 20 ounces? you know because venti means 20. In the pic says the venti is 26 ounces

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tbh that’s probably already “someone else’s” recipe i make so many of the same custom drink all with different names so who cares who “made it up”

Girl actin like she owns 51% stock or something..get the hell out of my store

there’s absolutely no frickin way…I mean I don’t believe someone would be able to do this bc our whole menu is SO customizable. plus wouldn’t that mean this person would be receiving some sorta percentage of the earnings on that drink??? I’m not super knowledgeable on copywriting and all that but this is ridiculous.

also, idk about other stores but my DM would never let us put a sign like this up bc it’s not “technically an actual Starbucks drink”. Ik a lot of stores still do this, but I’m just wondering if that’s actually true?

Someone needs to check their ego.

Bruh what dummy is paying over eight and a half dollars for this tall cup of sugar? Can you even taste the coffee?

It’s sounds utterly disgusting and sugary sweet

You can’t copyright recipes. And you are taking credit for someone else ingredient creations 🤷‍♂️

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Ive copyrighted several posts from starbucksbaristarecipes and other Starbucks accounts for stealing my videos and not crediting me

Kinda shallow of me Ik but these accounts won’t profit off of my vids no thanks

The best part to me is that flat whites don’t even have espresso in them… sue for false advertising if anything