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Cooks Source Magazine Apologizes — Sort Of
taco8982 writes "Cooks Source has published a statement in response to the uproar over claiming the web is public domain a couple of weeks ago. While it does contain an apology, I'll leave it to individual readers to determine how apologetic it actually is." It also seems that the publisher has decided to cease publication entirely.
She didn't want the money for HER college. She asked that a donation be made to the Columbia School of Journalism.
Copyright law IS different in regards to recipes - they can't be copyrighted.
That said, what was lifted wasn't a recipe, but an article discussing the history of apple pie, which happened to include two archaic recipes for apple pie as illustrations of the changes.
Note, for the record, that the lady who you suspect jumped the gun discovered that her article had been used without her permission did so when a friend contacted her to congratulate her on getting her article published.
Note further that checking Cooks Source on the web showed that virtually every article in the magazine was lifted from some other source without permission.
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Copyright law IS different in regards to recipes - they can't be copyrighted.
"Recipes" can't be copyrighted in that you can't sue a chef for making your recipe. However, the actual written text of a recipe can have copyrights and you can definitely sue someone for publishing, word-for-word, your recipe that you wrote. The written recipe is copyrightable, the actual proportions, sequence of steps, etc. is not copyrightable.
The author's thoughts on the "apology" are here.
She basically had the same reaction we all did: What a load of crap.
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