[Sca-cooks] NPR Segment on Copyright infringement

[David Walddon]

It is nice that they listed it as adapted. 
But I think that the "grey" area on recipes is actually in play here. 
If they had taken your commentary on the recipe. That would be another matter. 
But the a recipe is hard to protect. 
Translations are even a problem. 
I carefully document all my translation efforts (noting differences and similarities from existing translations if there are any). 
I am not as careful on recipes but I am almost always utilizing multiple different sources to come up with my own (when I am working in a modern sense) or I am going from the original language and multiple translations (if it is a period source). 

Is there any actual case law around recipes? 

Eduardo 


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On Nov 25, 2010, at 1:33 AM, David Friedman wrote:

> It's worth noting that Food Network is not in a terribly good position to complain. I discovered quite some time ago that they had pirated, verbatim, a recipe from the Miscellany. I complained, they apologized, and the recipe is now listed as "adapted from" the Miscellany. "Adapted" means that they converted "1/2 hour" to "30 minutes," and I think made one or two other tweaks on that order.
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