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Originally Posted by LadyKate
The way I read that a cookbook would be protected from photocopy but not from hand/written/typed copy?
So it the typesetting is not identical to the print book it would not be a breach as a recipe is not copyright but the book is? While the article indicated that a specific recipe could not be considered copyright, the entire book would be so if someone lifted the contents of a complete recipe book it would be considered a breach I am sure. I guess cookbooks are different than other books.
Hummm, what about the taking of a poem and needle-pointing it onto a wall hanging? or many wall hangings until the entire slim book of poetry is rendered into folk art? Is it the medium of the copy that makes it break copyright? or is it the amount of the work that is copied?
I remember when a blind friend of mine (many many years ago when audio books were not available except through some blind services) would request a tape of a book from a service. I wonder if that was considered "fair use" because it was accessibility although that term wasn't used until recently.
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Recipes are an odd duck.
You cannot copyright the ingredients. On instructions only if there is something special in them. Also, you have to be careful not to violate trademark laws.
Yes, Jell-O could send a DMCA if one writes a book on 69 ways to use Jell-O in romance.
Now you could do 69 ways to use flavored gelatin with no problems.
Even the major brands have to get permission to use someone else's product in a recipe they use.
Example, put a stick of butter in the chicken is basic instructions. However shove a stick of butter down the throat or up the rear can be because it is uncommon.
If I wrote a cookbook and used Pillsbury refrigerated pie crusts and Comstock Apple Pie Filling, it would be in my best interest to get permission.
I could just type refrigerated pie crust and canned apple pie filling and be fine.
Oh you will notice if I post one of my recipes online, it will be original in one way or another.
This is more to keep an eye on who is borrowing it for their own purposes.