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| Mar 3, 2021 at 8:59 | history | edited | AnoE | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 3, 2021 at 7:42 | comment | added | AnoE | Thanks, @Kevin, I've copied those links into the answer. | |
| Mar 3, 2021 at 7:41 | history | edited | AnoE | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 2, 2021 at 22:49 | comment | added | Kevin | @Flydog57: For the US law on things of that nature, see Baker v. Selden and 17 USC 102(b). You will find analogous restrictions in most other copyright regimes. | |
| Mar 2, 2021 at 13:07 | history | edited | AnoE | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 1, 2021 at 15:26 | history | edited | AnoE | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 1, 2021 at 15:26 | comment | added | AnoE | You can copyright the actual recipe (i.e. the way the words are written, the concrete representation, the images on the page, maybe even the creative way you used fonts and colors, whatever). But you cannot copyright the idea (or fact) that if you mix eggs with bacon and roast them in a pan you end up with bacon & eggs. And since there is no way to write "5 eggs" instead of "5 eggs", you cannot copyright the words "5 eggs". And no, I'm no lawyer either, but that's what's being discussed in (for example) the big world of cooking - see my link - and also IT (copyright on algorithms vs. code) | |
| Mar 1, 2021 at 14:56 | comment | added | Flydog57 | I'm not a lawyer, but a copyright may extend to Derivative Work (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_work). You also can't copyright facts. I'm pretty sure that you can copyright a recipe, and that that copyright would extend to a substantially similar recipe with only a few words changed in the instructions (as a derivative work). The point of copyright is to protect the author's rights. The point of a patent is to encourage inventors to disclose the details of their invention (in return for a limited duration protection of their ideas) | |
| Mar 1, 2021 at 14:13 | history | edited | AnoE | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 1, 2021 at 10:05 | history | answered | AnoE | CC BY-SA 4.0 |