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TlDr; Someone wrote a way to deal with SEO spam on recipe pages, but it was a copyright violation. Maybe a search engine provider could do something similar,
by jimnotgym 6y ago
TlDr; Someone wrote a way to deal with SEO spam on recipe pages, but it was a copyright violation.
Maybe a search engine provider could do something similar, and then the spam wouldn't be there any more
- perl4ever 6y agoIt didn't say anything about a copyright violation. Removing all the extraneous material seems like exactly why it wouldn't be a copyright violation. "Why Recipes May Not Be Literary Works For recipes, courts instead have looked at part (b) of the Copyright Act, stating, "In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work." https://www.findlaw.com/smallbusiness/intellectual-property/copyrighting-recipes.html https://www.findlaw.com/smallbusiness/intellectual-property/... This sort of thing produces cognitive dissonance if you take for granted a world where programs are copyrightable, though...