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That seems to be true for the most part, but if your recipe contains a lengthy narrative or something, the work as a whole could be covered by copyright[1]. I'
by beatgammit 8y ago
That seems to be true for the most part, but if your recipe contains a lengthy narrative or something, the work as a whole could be covered by copyright[1].
I've seen this in a lot of blogs and recipe books, but I don't know how far it extends, and I'm sure someone could extract just the base recipe from the narrative and the derivative work wouldn't violate copyright.
- [1] https://paleoflourish.com/recipe-copyright/#protected https://paleoflourish.com/recipe-copyright/#protected
- ElBarto 8y agoYes, but in that case the copyright extends to the literary work, not the recipe (i.e. the technical process) itself. Once you have published a cooking recipe you cannot prevent anyone from recreating the dish by following that recipe, even restaurants.
- wiz21c 8y agoYup. In Europe you don't copyright "ideas" but expressions of them. If a whistle a song and you make a song out of it and sell millions of copies, then I can't claim anything. Now, if I have a sheet of music with that tune written on it, that predates your own version, then I win. That's made to ensure that ideas are free to flow. That's very good for auhtors (and society in general, as far as I'm concerned)