[Sca-cooks] Copyright question?

[Tara Sersen Boroson]

Ok, folks who are in the copyright know.  There's been talk about the 
fact that you can't copyright a recipe, though you can copyright the 
exact wording of the instructions.

Can copyrighting a recipe prevent someone from using that recipe to make 
food for sale?  Like, if I say I have a copyright on my kiffle recipe, 
could someone use it to make kiffles to sell at a bakery?

Similarly, (OT for food, but closely related, and my brain is wandering 
far afield at this late hour...) how would that relate to printed 
patterns (like, a sewing or knitting pattern)?  Clearly, you couldn't 
reprint the pattern and sell it.  But, can you make a garment from that 
pattern and sell it, even if the pattern says that you can't?

Thank you, oh knowledgeable ones!
-Magdalena

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Tara Sersen Boroson

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