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What does the law say about recipes of the sort that you find in cookbooks?

• jerf 7y ago
  Mostly that they aren't copyrightable at all, so it's not a helpful analogy since the law equally clearly holds that software is. I've heard anecdotally that that's why there's so many cooking blogs that bloviate endlessly about how the recipe will look when it's done and what it made them feel when they ate it first and maybe just a bit of history about the region where it's from before finally almost-begrudgingly consenting to share the recipe, because that's all copyrightable content that can't be legally stolen, whereas if they just posted a bare recipe, anybody could walk off with it.