On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 07:24:21 -0700 (PDT), Rusty wrote:

>
> People that state that the RFC Cookbook is full of exclusive
> recipes published nowhere else haven't read the book.
>
> The attributions below came from the pages of
> the RFC Cookbook.
>
> How many more recipes are included the without attribution.
>
> Were the original publishers of the recipes below
> contacted and asked for permission before their
> recipes were published and sold?
>
> How can copyright be claimed when the work is full of
> recipes lifed from other cookbooks and magazines without permission?
>
> It would seem the copyright of the RFC Cookbook is
> questionable at best.
>
> RFC Cookbook recipes that came from other sources
>
> - Sweet (and Hot and sour) Broccoli with Pork, page 58 - Jime Lee's
> Chinese cookbook

> - Murph's Chinese-Irish Stew, page 62 - Florence Lin's Chinese One-
> Dish meals

well, for the record of my two recipes the first said 'adapted from' and
the second 'heavily adapted from.' there were substantial changes to both,
which i think obviates any copyright complaints.

as far as i know, ingredient lists cannot be copyrighted (and they were
different anyway), but the narrative can (and mine was very different from
both).

i put the note in to indicate that the recipe didn't spring full-blown from
my forehead, but rather had a starting point in those books. the second
recipe results in a very different dish than the one in the book.

but the point is moot, because no one (except for possibly the disney
people, who seem maniacal about it) pursues copyright complaints unless the
infringement casts them money.

if jim lee or florence lin were to object i would be more than happy to cut
them in for a percentage of my profit from the deal.

your pal,
blake