Want a recipe but dont wanna sift through ad filled, AI genned, crap recipe sites?

[tinker@infosec.exchange]

Want a recipe but dont wanna sift through ad filled, AI genned, crap recipe sites?

Check out free eCookbooks through your library's app.

#solarPunk #libraries #cooking

[becomethewaifu@tech.lgbt]

@tinker Also, it's useful to keep in mind that recipes are not subject to copyright in the US, as they're entirely 'statements of fact', which explains why every article has the 'my great grandmother pulled this recipe out of a magic lake' backstory as that is copyrightable. But there's nothing legally stopping you from just writing down the actual recipe part of the ones you like in a personal book.

Though personally, if I ever have a reason to go hunting for recipe ideas, I'm more likely to go sifting through [redacted]'s ridiculous collection gathered over a long career as a chef. They have more cookbooks on those shelves than the local library does, and it's a reasonably sized library too, not one of those tiny one-room shacks...

[insidertreat@infosec.exchange]

@tinker mmmm dead husband empanadas

[scottcarlson@hachyderm.io]

@becomethewaifu @tinker I think there is a clarification. The list of ingredients is definitely "statement of fact", but I believe the instructions are not.

I heard an alternate explanation for the backstory on all recipes was that Google wouldn't index just a recipe on a page, so the backstory became a way to get searchable.

[becomethewaifu@tech.lgbt]

@scottcarlson That was just the big one I remembered off the top of my head. There are multiple reasons 'bare' recipes aren't protected in the US though: Copyright can't be used to protect ideas, only the expression of them. If an idea is so intertwined with the expression that it's impossible to separate them, then that can't be protected either.

I'm simply stating the documented position of the US copyright office and courts on this one, not trying to argue technicalities:

Courts have found that recipes are wholly factual and functional, and therefore uncopyrightable. As the Sixth Circuit described in Tomaydo-Tomahdo, LLC v. Vozary, “the list of ingredients is merely a factual statement, and as previously discussed, facts are not copyrightable. Furthermore, a recipe’s instructions, as functional directions, are statutorily excluded from copyright protection.”

Tomaydo-Tomahdo, LLC v. Vozary