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

[David Friedman]

>At the Caidan Brewers Guild meeting yesterday, someone asked me 
>about the legalities surrounding republishing a recipe, even on a 
>free social medium.  I answered, "for the love of God I do not know 
>how to answer this question, due to the current Cooks Source legal 
>brangle.  Ask me next week."
>
>So I hope that someone here will keep us apprised.  I am VERY 
>interested in an answer to this question.
>
>Cheers,
>Selene Colfox

If you want to be very cautious, either get permission or put the 
recipe in your own words--the information in it is not protected by 
copyright.

My guess is that reproducing a single recipe verbatim, with credit, 
is very unlikely to get you into trouble. Fair use isn't a precise 
category, but that should fit enough of the criteria to make you 
reasonably safe.

The Miscellany has a fairly broad permission at the beginning; I 
haven't decided what to do in the new edition with regard to online 
reproduction permissions.

It occurs to me that one solution to the problem would be to web, in 
addition to the pdf of the book, the recipes in HTML, with an anchor 
for each--perhaps even a separate html document for each. Then anyone 
who wants to can link instead of copying--to as many things as he 
wants.

And yes, I know there are potential "framing" issues, but I doubt 
anyone is going to worry about them in this context.
-- 
David Friedman
www.daviddfriedman.com
daviddfriedman.blogspot.com/