Copy rights and Recipes

What’s happening? Recipes are generally not copyright-able. Then food industry starlet comes up with a recipe that gets duplicated and put on magazines, and the questions about copyrights re-emerges or parts of a cookbook, including personal stories, get copied and added to a new cookbook by another author.

Why is this important? As a cook and they’ll tell you a recipe is only a guide, two cooks will make two completely different things from the same recipe.

How will this be important? As more industries embrace open source does that copyrighting fall out of vogue?

NYTimes | Who Owns a Recipe? A Plagiarism Claim Has Cookbook Authors Asking.