RE: Recipes

["Kerry Ouellet" <kouellet@xxxxxxx>]

That's interesting. I disagree in the sense that if I take a number of facts
and I collect them and put them into a format of my own creation (let's say
I research data on population trends), although the population numbers would
be considered facts, the final format of which the facts are presented can
be copyrighted as mine. 

So I would say that a recipe is copyrightable in so much as it is in the
form of a book or journal or Web page. It's the "form" of the recipe that is
copyrightable, not the intellectual property, per se. It doesn't mean no one
can make the recipe. The act of making the recipe isn't copyrightable. But
if you were making copies out of a recipe book, or copies out of a journal
of the recipe, it's that form of the recipe that is copyrightable.

Kerry Ouellet 

-----Original Message-----
From: M. Robert Fraser [mailto:rfraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 12:03 PM
To: digital-copyright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Recipes

One of our copyright attorneys at the University of Michigan has told me 
explicitly that he does not hold recipes to be copyright able.  He holds 
that it is just facts.

-- 
-bob

M. Robert Fraser, Ph.D.
Assistant Director, Mardigian Library
4063 Mardigian Library
University of Michigan-Dearborn
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Dearborn, MI 48128-2406
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