Here is an awesome cross-cultural cross-topic analysis of food and digital rights by Jennifer Granick:

What if the original ramen chefs tried to stop others from developing their own ramen recipes and making differently flavored ramen broth?

They’d form an association — say, the Ramen Industrial Alliance of Asia — and announce a clampdown on the proliferation of infringing noodle shops. Their arguments would echo the music industry’s. “The chefs who created ramen deserve to get paid for their creation,” they’d say. “These noodle shops are taking profits away from the creators, while peddling an often-inferior product to an unsuspecting public that believes they are getting real ramen.”

I have just one word in response: Tampopo