BYC Chookbawk (Cookbook) Recipe Submissions are closing 9/13 @ 9pm

[Backyard Farm]

I submitted one today... Anna's Easy German Pancakes

anxious to see this cookbook!

 

[MissPrissy]

All recipes MUST be submitted using the submission page tool.

No exceptions.

If they are not submitted by the page for doing so they will not be included as a part of the project.

If it is copy and pasted from mastercook and is not your original recipe it is invalid for submission.

Thanks.

 

[Wifezilla]

Just a quick note about copyright and recipes...

"Mere listings of ingredients as in recipes, formulas, compounds, or prescriptions are not subject to copyright protection. However, when a recipe or formula is accompanied by substantial literary expression in the form of an explanation or directions, or when there is a combination of recipes, as in a cookbook, there may be a basis for copyright protection."
http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl122.html

"How do I protect my recipe?
A mere listing of ingredients is not protected under copyright law. However, where a recipe or formula is accompanied by substantial literary expression in the form of an explanation or directions, or when there is a collection of recipes as in a cookbook, there may be a basis for copyright protection. Note that if you have secret ingredients to a recipe that you do not wish to be revealed, you should not submit your recipe for registration, because applications and deposit copies are public records."

"U.S. copyright law addresses recipes, but what holds sway can be called either ethics or etiquette. Cooking is not considered inventing; rather, it evolves. Copyright law specifies that "substantial literary expression in the form of an explanation or directions," such as a cookbook, can be copyrighted but that a mere list of ingredients cannot receive that protection.

The ethics guidelines of the International Association of Culinary Professionals focus on giving proper attribution to recipes that are published or taught. The association advises using the words "adapted from," "based on" or "inspired by," depending on how much a recipe has been revised. ("Adapted from" is the phrasing favored by The Washington Post and many other newspaper food sections, which, along with culinary instructors, enjoy "fair use" of someone's creation for the purpose of teaching, news reporting, scholarship or research.) The only time a recipe should be printed without attribution, the association contends, is when it has been changed so substantially that it no longer resembles its source."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/03/AR2006010300316.html

I used to create recipe post cards for a greeting card company and had to be "up" on all the copyright stuff. What this basically means is a list of ingredients can not be copyrighted. The DESCRIPTIONS and DIRECTIONS that go with it ARE subject to copyright.

 

[me&thegals]

What if we don't want our screen name and real name linked together in the cookbook for privacy reasons? Other than that, I would love to submit some of my favorites!

 

[MissPrissy]

We are asking for both names for legalities as you will retain the copyright of your recipe and will also be responsible if you were to have any issues arise from a copyright infringement.

 

[agnes_day]

how would we know if a recipe was picked or not??

 

[MissPrissy]

You won't. Submit the recipe(s) you want and we'll see what we get.

 

[ozark hen]

Miss Prissy, what if we say we modified our recipe from another recipe?? I have tons of cookbooks that were made up as fund raisers from different churches, etc. Wouldn't it be like those? Someone could make up a recipe and not knowing there is one out there like it???

 

[MissPrissy]

You would be okay.

 

[ozark hen]

thanks, I was starting to be paranoid. LOL