Re: author needs public domain examples

On 02/01/2000, Stephen Fishman <sfish55[_at_]yahoo.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Michael Sobel <msobel[_at_]gj.com> wrote:
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> > How about recipes (dependiing on how they are written)?
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> Well, a mere listing of ingredients is in the public
> domain. Do you have an example you'd like to share?

No specific example. Just my general understanding that the courts have found that basic recipes (i.e., those without prosaic instructions) are not copyrightable. You probably could find cases fairly easily by putting in a search in a legal court decision database.

Michael Sobel
<msobel[_at_]gj.com> Received on Sat Feb 05 2000 - 19:40:34 GMT