Interesting point. As I understand it recipes are the most copyvioed form of writing. The basic ideas of what makes recipes work are of course beyond copyright, but the specifics present big problems because your aunt may have passed on a favorite recipe that she took from a copyright cookbook to your mom, and for you to take and publish that recipe could be a breach of copyright. But if the original cookbook was reprinting a traditional recipe maybe it may not be copyright after all no matter what the book's general copyright notice says.
In practical terms, unless there has been an exact copy from a copyright source, the presumption should be that a specific recipe is in the public domain. A wholesale copying of everything in a book should still be discouraged.
That being said, the same rules about copyright should apply to Wikibooks as to Wikipedia, so it does not have a bearing on deciding which project should have the recipe.
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Rick wrote:
Aren't most recipes copyrighted?
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Matthew Larsen mat.larsen@gmail.com wrote: I agree that recipies should be included in the main wikipedia - providing they are not stupid and do actually work. I would love to give a shot at cooking things (Delia Smith gets on my tits) and anything to help me learn to cook would be great.
This may lead to edit wars with people fiddling each others recipies, so this will have to be watched.
Mabye a wikirecipies site?
On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 03:35:51 -0400, Sj 2.718281828@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 19:05:17 -0400, Delirium wrote:
I'd say a fairly high percentage of our articles on drugs have something that at least one government will find objectionable, so we'd have to tag pretty much all of them.
This might not be a terrible idea. It should be as easy as possible to provide various views of the encyclopedia which are inoffensive, in turn, to a) governments, b) children, c) the pious, etc. Giving reusers the ability to choose a limited subset of encyclopedia content is not censorship (though one might argue that it makes targeted censorship easier). I can think of a few cases in which I would find it appropriate to remove "a fairly high percentage of our articles on drugs," among other things, from a particular snapshot or CD.