my mother asked me a question and I truly didn't know, so I come here to the fount of all knowledge...
if someone decides to write a cookbook, where do they get the receipes from?
what I mean is that do they have to obtain permission from all the different cookbooks they may be plucking receipes from for a certain theme, or do they fall under "common usage" or some such thang... do you have to actually "change" the receipe to be able to print it in your own cookbook?
it would seem to me, knowing nothing, that you can't copyright a receipe but that's just my ignorant viewpoint... otherwise The Joy of Cooking would have a ton of requests daily for reprints, yes?
so, in a nutshell - how DO new cookbooks hit the market with all the receipes already out there, and how do they cover themselves legally from being sued by the housewife who's been using that biscuit receipe since Creation?
please and thank you!
if someone decides to write a cookbook, where do they get the receipes from?
what I mean is that do they have to obtain permission from all the different cookbooks they may be plucking receipes from for a certain theme, or do they fall under "common usage" or some such thang... do you have to actually "change" the receipe to be able to print it in your own cookbook?
it would seem to me, knowing nothing, that you can't copyright a receipe but that's just my ignorant viewpoint... otherwise The Joy of Cooking would have a ton of requests daily for reprints, yes?
so, in a nutshell - how DO new cookbooks hit the market with all the receipes already out there, and how do they cover themselves legally from being sued by the housewife who's been using that biscuit receipe since Creation?
please and thank you!
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