Mac & Cheese Please

Posted January 12, 2006 3:59 PM

Interesting WaPo article via copycense discussing copyright and cooking.

Click through for a Crusty Mac & Cheese Recipe.

This happened to be the first hypo we addressed in Professor Stewart Sterk's copyright class: whether a recipe or a collection of recipes are afforded copyright protection.

Here are someone else's notes from that class:

- Copying one recipe out of a 200 recipe book for your own cookbook is not fair use if there are many ways to express the same idea/dish. There can be a copyright for one recipe and copying of one by another can result in [reduced] value of [the] cookbook (factor #4)
- Teaching a copyrighted recipe is fair use (factor #1 educational and not likely to reduce mkt value – may increase popularity of cookbook!)

Related: The Trademark Blog: Can Recipes Be Copyrighted?

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