Re: music playlists - now recipes

At 20:14 04/04/2005, you wrote:
>A recipe understood as a list of ingredients and the way and order to mix
>them is not ever copyrightable -- so far, anyway. But one could have some
>flowery (pun intended) descriptive text about the dish or about how to put
>it together or about the metaphysical pleasures of grinding spices or some
>such which could be creative expression not subject to the merger doctrine
>or the exclusion under 102(b).

The classic illustrative example is, I believe, "The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook." A moment's contemplation of the difference between this book and a run-of-the-mill recipe collection makes the distinction between the protectable and the not, pretty clear.

Amalyah Keshet
Head of Image Resources & Copyright Management The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Tel +972-2-670-8874
Fax +972-2-670-8064 Received on Thu Apr 07 2005 - 00:15:31 GMT