On 12/08/2013 12:09 PM, John Kuthe wrote:
> On Sun, 08 Dec 2013 08:10:47 -0500, The Cook >
> wrote:
> ...
>> Source:
>> "Out of the Kitchen, Elkin Junior Womans Club"
>> Copyright:
>> "1949"
>
> Copyright? COPYRIGHT??!!
>
> You can't copyright a recipe! Nor patent it or register a trademark
> for a recipe!!! The only intellectual property protection a recipe has
> is if it's kepts a trade secret!
>
> John Kuthe...
>
According to the Copyright Office, you can copyright recipes, but not a
list of ingredients. Here's a direct quote:

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Copyright law does not protect recipes that are mere listings of
ingredients. Nor does it protect other mere listings of ingredients such
as those found in formulas, compounds, or prescriptions. Copyright
protection may, however, extend to substantial literary expression—a
description, explanation, or illustration, for example—that accompanies
a recipe or formula or to a combination of recipes, as in a cookbook.

Only original works of authorship are protected by copyright. “Original”
means that an author produced a work by his or her own intellectual
effort instead of copying it from an existing work.

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See for yourself at http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl122.html