Re: copyright in recipes

> Urban legend or not, the story doesn't do much for copyright purposes
> since the recipe (and most any recipe) is not copyrightable.
>
> Sheldon W. Halpern
> Professor of Law
> The Ohio State University College of Law
> <shalpern[_at_]magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>

Why not? (assuming original, fixed in tangible medium, etc...) I assume you rely on 102(b), but query: Can't you distinguish the "work" from the "process or procedure" it describes? Isn't that what 102(b) attempts to do?? Making the cookies of course would not infringe, in view of 102, but copying an original work (the recipe)? Would that not infringe? Is it too "factual" ?

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Micah Stolowitz
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