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It'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 blogge
by eps 5y ago
It'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.