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Originally Posted by yougetthesmiles  YT members will be able to submit their favorite recipes, but with the copyright laws, I'm not sure yet if you will be able to submit recipes from other cook books, such as betty crocker, kraft, Martha Stewart, Rachael Ray just to name a few. |
Years ago, I used to belong to an online text-based web service called GEnie (anyone remember that one?) Anyway, we'd share recipes formatted for recipe programs. As far as copyright goes, this is what I learned:
Individual recipes are not copyrighted.
Compilations of recipes are, as well as the unique stories and such that goes with it. So as far as I recall, the magic number was 3. If you were including 3 recipes from any one book, then it was copyright infringement.
If you take a so-and-so's recipe for say tuna casserole, and you have found that you don't add peas to it, but greenbeans, it is YOUR recipe now anyway. Maybe you don't add 1/4 ts black pepper, but 1/8 teaspoon. Same thing. Maybe you don't boil your noodles first, but add extra liquid to it and bake it all together--see where I'm going...
Hope that helps,