Recipes

United States
November 25, 2010 7:01pm CST
Does anyone know if recipes are subject to copyright laws?
3 responses
@wiggles18 (2506)
• Canada
26 Nov 10
I am pretty sure they could be considered so. I assume you want to use them on a freelance writing site, right? A tip for that is to use family recipes: I have a collection of around 500, maybe even 1000 going back generations. Or, you could always find existing recipes, and change them up: you could replace chocolate chips in cookies with pieces of oreos or something; a lot of combinations out there for that sort of thing :D
• United States
26 Nov 10
Yes I am looking constantly for new content ideas to publish. Thank you very much for your advice. What I have learned since last night that the ingredient list usually won't get you in trouble but the preparation directions will.
• United States
27 Nov 10
Cookbooks have the copyrighted information in the first pages. It explains there how it works. You need to change it to fit your specifics so that they don't match up to something that is copyrighted. Like it was said here family recipes are good, thing is if they happen to be in a cookbook somewhere but a bit different it could cause trouble. Just do a search to see if it is already out there the way you decide to word your work.
@durgabala (1360)
• India
26 Nov 10
they are, even they should pass copyscape.