[Sca-cooks] The Cooks Source Editor Speaks at last

[David Friedman]

>There
>are wonderful things like...a list of ingredients cannot be copyrighted, but
>the directions can!  So especially in the area of food, it gets really
>tricky.

The basic rule there is pretty simple. Copyright protects expression, 
not idea. So not only can the list of ingredients not be copyrighted, 
the information in the directions can't be copyrighted either. What 
can be copyrighted is the actual text of the directions.
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David/Cariadoc
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