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I just read at the California Library their legal finding that recipes are considered “facts” under copyright law and are reprintable or usable somewhere else without being illegal.

Hi, Jolie …

Thanks for your comment! Just to clarify slightly, the ingredients of a recipe are the “facts” of the recipe and not-copyrighted. But the important point to keep in mind is that it’s a “collection” of recipes such as you’d find in a cookbook or magazine article, that IS protected under copyright laws. Not the facts of the recipes individually, but the entire collection. So the reprinting of the complete article’s collection from Woman’s World is actually a breach of US Copyright laws (although just sharing the ingredient list and brief instructions of an individual recipe probably wouldn’t be).

Hope that makes some sort of sense. Sorry if it was confusing in some way.

~Debi