> A recipe can not be protected by copyright. Could some pro-IP person help me reconcile following statements: 1. If there was no copyright, "nobody" would wr

> A recipe can not be protected by copyright. Could some pro-IP person help me reconcile following statements: 1. If there was no copyright, "nobody" would write books/create art, thus we absolutely need to have copyright 2. Recipes have no copyright, but we are flooded by old and new recipes all the time. If you claim new recipes are somehow less work a daily comic strip, thus needing less protection, please consult a chef of a michelin starred restaurant about the need of the work to come up with new recipes.