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If there's some level of creativity/originality in the preparation, then that is copyrightable.

• kadoban 4y ago
  I am pretty sure that'd be a patent. I suspect it'd be really hard to get an effective one on a coctail though. I know there's a bit more to it than adding the ingredients and mixing (or not), but there's not a _lot_ more to it than that.
  • paranoidrobot 4y ago
    I think you are confusing the raw facts of how to prepare it (generally not copyrightable), and any original creative aspects of the preparation instructions. So, I might incorporate into the instructions about what advice my grandmother said about making it, and that might be copyrightable. Relating it back to the original story: You can't copyright the cocktail, but you could copyright the performance of making it.
    • OJFord 4y ago
      So the actual text is copyright, like any textbook, just not the same method paraphrased? Seems fairly obvious put like that. I suppose it becomes less intuitive when the text is just a straight forward bullet point instruction, so one's not really different from the other.
      • thaumasiotes 4y ago
        No. The actual text is not copyrighted when it consists of instructions. You can copy the exact text of the recipe, cut out the parts that don't have to do with making the food, and you're fine.
    • kadoban 4y ago
      But if you just add color to the instructions and copyright that, that won't really help you own the drink itself. You'd just own that one description of how to make it. Which is fine if that's the goal, but it doesn't seem like that's what anyone would usually be most interested in.