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Originally Posted by HarryT
Actually, recipes themselves cannot be copyrighted. From the US Copyright website:
So, a recipe isn't protected by copyright, although accompanying text, photographs, etc, may of course be.
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No, they aren't, but the books they are in usually are so I took that as the point. In general, they are "sort of protected" because they are usually copied out of a book, but no one thinks twice about it. They will write down the bits they need and send it willy-nilly all over.
And that is where DRM can help an author when it comes to casual sharing. It stops willy before it becomes nilly.