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Default Copyright protection on recipes

On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:24:28 -0800, Mark Thorson >
wrote:

> An amusing article written by a rather attractive
> lawyer on the legality of ripping off recipe content
> on the web.
>
> http://www.lawlawlandblog.com/2010/1...101_don_1.html
>
> I never heard of Cooks Source before. If it was
> discussed here, I missed it. But apparently there
> was a flamewar on Facebook over their thievery.
> Too bad the web is Balkanizing like this. It used
> to be that every flamewar had some presence in
> Usenet newsgroups.


That wasn't over recipe content, it was over an entire article about
apple pie. We've discussed what's copyrightable and what's not to
death already.

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