[Sca-cooks] Copyright Infringement

[Johnna Holloway]

The listing of ingredients… no, but the text and the way you describe the dish is
copyrightable. The headnotes, commentary, textual notes, etc. belong to you.
If you have provided the translation, that's yours. The way the ingredients are described
is copyrightable.

And you cannot just cut and paste another's work off the web because that is plain and simple plagiarism.

See   http://foodblogalliance.com/a/recipe-attribution/

Johnnae

On Mar 20, 2014, at 7:11 PM, Sayyeda al-Kaslaania <samia at idlelion.net> wrote:

> I seem to recall that recipes cannot be copyright protected... 
> 
> On March 20, 2014 12:26:16 PM CDT, Daniel Myers <dmyers at medievalcookery.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Greetings,
>> 
>> It would appear that an individual named Leland Hoburg has several
>> books
>> published through Amazon.com which contain recipes copied off the
>> internet without attribution or the original author's permission.  The
>> following 4 books feature a section of medieval recipes that were
>> largely copied from my website, though some were taken from other
>> sources.
>> 
>> B00ASSE6P4: Easy Comfort Foods, Volume III. Easy to make recipes,
>> including redacted medieval recipes for the Scadian in all of us.
>> 1481840797: Easy Comfort Foods, Volume III. Easy to make recipes,
>> including redacted mediev: Artisan foods made easy (Volume 4)
>> B00HBZIYNW: Easy Comfort Foods, Volume IV
>> B00B8L2PX0: Easy Comfort Foods, Volume III, and The Complete Mead
>> Makers
>> Guide, Volume II
>> 
>> If you have any significant amount of material online, I suggest you
>> look at the table of contents of Mr. Hoburgs' works.  His Amazon page
>> can be found at http://www.amazon.com/Leland-Hoburg/e/B006C1SH8I/
>> 
>> I have contacted Amazon.com about the infringement.
>> 
>> - Doc
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