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Those have gotten way worse. It’s an SEO thing right?
by SV_BubbleTime 5y ago
Those have gotten way worse. It’s an SEO thing right?
- loa_in_ 5y agoClearly an attempt to lure you in when you're hungry and searching for some common queries like history of famous places.
- acdanger 5y agoI’ve assumed it was to create a longer page which can hold more ads.
- kortilla 5y agoRecipes by themselves aren’t copyrightable. Bullshit stories are.
- mandelbrotwurst 5y agoDoes copyright for a story containing a recipe protect against use of the recipe outside the context of the story?
- numpad0 5y agoI think the question is “is it possible to split recipe from BS story programmatically”
- CrazyStat 5y agoGenerally yes. Most recipe blogs use semantic markup so that Google recognizes it as a recipe, which also makes it easy to scrape programmatically.
- CrazyStat 5y agoNo
- lbotos 5y agoNo, but it stops straight scraping, and requires a scraper to do a little bit more work to copy the recipe.
- kwhitefoot 5y agoNot much extra work surely. Most recipes are on sites that use the same template for every recipe so it's pretty easy for a scraper to find the ingredients and method. The structure is usually even labelled with meaningful class names on the elements.
- eps 5y agoIt's viewed as a DRM measure. Recipes are not copyrightable unless they are attached to a story. It's probably an urban legend, but can't blame poor food bloggers from acting on it.
- compiler-guy 5y agoIt's not an urban legend in the United States: ==== Based on this reasoning, the United States Copyright Office Compendium, the Office’s manual for examiners, states that a mere listing of ingredients or contents is not copyrightable, as lists are not protected by copyright law (chapter 314.4(F)). The Office has also stated that a “simple set of directions” is uncopyrightable. In addition, courts have found that recipes are wholly factual and functional, and therefore uncopyrightable. As the Sixth Circuit described in Tomaydo-Tomahdo, LLC v. Vozary, “the list of ingredients is merely a factual statement, and as previously discussed, facts are not copyrightable. Furthermore, a recipe’s instructions, as functional directions, are statutorily excluded from copyright protection.” https://copyrightalliance.org/are-recipes-cookbooks-protected-by-copyright/ https://copyrightalliance.org/are-recipes-cookbooks-protecte...
- AlexCoventry 5y agoI would have thought the same reasoning would apply to software. I'm curious about how reasoning differs in that case.
- Octoth0rpe 5y agoI have to think part of it is also the pay structure of food bloggers being paid by the word.
- Bjartr 5y agoI'm pretty sure recipes aren't copyrightable, even when they are attached to a story.
- yencabulator 5y agoI'd assume it prevents legally scraping & copying the whole site, at the cost of a silly amount of human labor writing the fluff.
- jbc1 5y agoI just think they're part of the non-fiction fantasy genre of entertainment alongside cooking, travel, and house buying + renovating shows. They're ostensibly informational, but 99% of people consuming them aren't genuinely looking to cook the thing, travel to the place, or buy and renovate a house.
- mappu 5y agoYes - it's not specifically that the recipe sites have changed to do this, but rather, that Google is preferring to show you sites that are doing this.