FoodBanter.com - View Single Post - Is it copyright infringement to sell the result of a copywritten recipe?

wrote:
>
> Is it a violation of copyright if I follow a recipe and sell
> the result? For example, if I see a recipe for chocolate chip
> cookies on the back of the box of Toll-House, follow that recipe,
> and then sell the product, is that product that is sold a
> violation of any copyright law? Doesn't the copyright just
> have to do with my copying the literary version, the words or
> the recipe, not the outcome of the formula or
> recipe? Thanks for any help.

You can sell the cookies. If the inventor of the
recipe wanted protection over the cookies, he or she
should have sought a patent (which likely would have
expired by now).