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⌈ Secret Post #6432 ⌋

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Would it be sleazy of me to make a recipe book out of recipes found online?

[(Anonymous)]

(without pictures obviously)
So I have a massive , MASSIVE pinboard of recipes I've found online and saved and I was just looking at it and going. "huh I could do something with all these if I just reword or paraphrase the instructions or something" but then I was all nervous because like "would it be wrong to? Would people think I'm a piece of shit for it?"

What do you guys think?

Re: Would it be sleazy of me to make a recipe book out of recipes found online?

[(Anonymous)]

I mean.

Are you selling it? That would be unethical.

Are you putting it into book format for your personal use, or to give out to friends or family? That's almost certainly fine.

AYRT

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you

Re: Would it be sleazy of me to make a recipe book out of recipes found online?

[(Anonymous)]

This. I made two binders full of internet recipes years ago and thought nothing of it. But then, I also have no intentions of selling them or passing them off as my own.

Re: Would it be sleazy of me to make a recipe book out of recipes found online?

[(Anonymous)]

Recipes can't be copyrighted. This is why people do all the chatty stuff before the recipe, because that can be copyrighted (and so can the pictures). The instructions and ingredients? All yours. I wouldn't sell it or anything, but you have every legal and moral right to make yourself a book of recipes.

Re: Would it be sleazy of me to make a recipe book out of recipes found online?

[(Anonymous)]

What I do with recipes: print them put from various online sources, try them out a few times and write down tweaks and changes, go in and edit and print out the "new" recipe and add it to my recipe binder. Eventually I want to have enough for a whole little book I can print and maybe give to family or something.

I think it would be weird to print or make a blog/book/etc of recipes you haven't tried yourself, but I see no moral or ethical problem with it as long as you're not trying to make a huge profit.

Re: Would it be sleazy of me to make a recipe book out of recipes found online?

[(Anonymous)]

You can't copyright recipes, that is why every recipe book has all those copyrightable anecdotes in it. So, legally you are clear as long as you are just sticking to the recipes. Remember to throw in some copyrightable anecdotes of your own though.

Re: Would it be sleazy of me to make a recipe book out of recipes found online?

[(Anonymous)]

I am not a lawyer, buuut...

-Legally- you're probably in the clear. "The law views a recipe merely as a factual list of ingredients and basic steps rather than as creative expression." -Ethically- I'd recommend at least tweaking the recipes more than just a bit. Just rewording them is why secret recipes remain a thing.

See:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/29/dining/recipe-theft-cookbook-plagiarism.html