Help with copy right laws.... please!

[Twila]

What is the deal with recipes?

Is there any form of copyright laws for these?

If I want to take a recipe off the net/out of a cookbook and publish it on my website do I need permission.

Is it illegal to change the ingrediants a bit and call the recipe my own?

 

[GreenGreta]

Wooo, all good questions.

 

[AirIntake]

If you change the ingredients in any way then you just made an original and are free to post it.

 

[Vanni Fucci]

I would think that it would be impossible to copyright a recipe...which is why there are so many secret ones...

So long as you're not scanning images from a copyrighted cookbook and posting them on your website, you should be ok...

 

[peapod]

Hey twinks check this place out...

http://www.recipelink.com/copycat.html

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peapod: ya, what you want?
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[Hard-Luck Henry]

Just call it something slightly different, Twila, then if anyone asks, say you've just made the recipe up yourself. How they gonna prove otherwise?

 

[Twila]

RE: Help with copy right

Henry, normally that's exactly the type of thing I'd do.

Except this is for work....can't feck around when it's work...well..I can and I do...but that's different.....

I found out that unless the recipe is patented I can use them as I see fit.

Thanks for the help all.....

Great site Pea!!!!!!

 

[peapod]

Heya twinks Check out this place 8O It boggles the mind...you know we need a receipe and food place around here...which reminds me...I gots to go get the 7 layer bean dip to eat with these nachos

http://www.yumyum.com/

 

[Vanni Fucci]

I remember sometime back I started a thread for Twila's recipes...

 

[Twila]

RE: Help with copy right

I remember that....that was back in the days when you were a god......

seems now your only an advisor....what happened there?

 

[Vanni Fucci]

Re: RE: Help with copy right

I remember that....that was back in the days when you were a god......

seems now your only an advisor....what happened there?

Pissed off the powers that be I guess...but hey, it happens... 8)

Link to the Recipe Thread

 

[Frito lay]

What is the deal with recipes?

Is there any form of copyright laws for these?

I happen to be a fan of Betty Crocker, and I am telling you right now I will personally call her and Give her the name and Avatar of you Twila if I hear of any Shenanigans of you copying any content from her Recipes.

 

[Twila]

Sooooo....Frito....you and Ms. Crocker eh?

Who'd have thunk it.

From what I can gather about Ms. Crocker and her age....I think I could take her.....

 

[Andem]

This is the bottom line: You cannot copyright recipes, but you CAN copyright the directions. Bottom line.

Hope this helps.

 

[PoisonPete2]

was there not a law suit in Ontario some years back when a Menonite group took some woman to Court for marketing chewy cookies?

 

[p106_peppy]

It's legal untill someone threatens legal action.