>spamalicious wrote:
>> About a year or so ago, I was doing a search for Thai recipes when I
>> came across a website for an importer of Thai foodstuff - ingredients,
>> cookware, etc. I looked through their extensive recipe collection and
>> thought that it looked rather good, but something about the recipes rang
>> familiar. I searched other links and came across the Philpotts' recipes
>> (Ian and Muoi) that I had seen in various newsgroups and mailing lists
>> in years past and was happy to have found them again. When reading
>> through a few of them, I realized that the recipes found on the
>> retailer's website that they had claimed to be their own recipes, were
>> in fact those written by Ian K. Philpott - some of the recipes had the
>> occasional measurement change, but the description, ingredients, and
>> methods were the same, word for word (except in situations where Ian
>> wrote "my wife", the retailer swapped "we" or "our").
>>
>> I wrote to the retailer and asked them what was up - the response I got
>> was that the recipes were indeed found online, but that they took a lot
>> of time in testing out each recipe, blah blah blah. But that didn't
>> explain why the Philpotts' recipes were claimed as the retailer's own,
>> word for word with no credit given to the Philpotts whatsoever. I also
>> contacted the owner of another website who did have the Philpotts recipe
>> collection, but he gave credit where credit was due and he was aware of
>> the situation with the retailer, but he felt that piracy was so rampant
>> that his hands were tied and he felt that there was nothing to be done.
>>
>> So, a recent discussion on another group recipe copyrights made me
>> think about this retailer again. Maybe if enough people raised a stink
>> about it, they'd either give proper credit to the Philpotts or they'd
>> take the recipes down instead of trying to profit off of them. What
>> would you do? Yeah, maybe I shouldn't care so much because it's not
>> hurting me personally, but I knew Ian through the few mailing lists that
>> we were both members of before he passed away and so in a very small
>> way, I feel like his "legacy" needs to be protected, y'know?

Individual recipes per se (list of ingredients and directions) cannot be
copyrighted, however accompanying ancecdotal text may qualify for copyright
protection.


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