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Are recipes copyrightable?
U.S. Copyright Office - Recipes
Mere listings of ingredients as in recipes, formulas, compounds, or prescriptions are not subject to copyright protection. However, when a recipe or formula is accompanied by substantial literary expression in the form of an explanation or directions, or when there is a combination of recipes, as in a cookbook, there may be a basis for copyright protection.
Protection under the copyright law (title 17 of the United States Code, section 102) extends only to "original works of authorship" that are fixed in a tangible form (a copy). "Original" means merely that the author produced the work by his own intellectual effort, as distinguished from copying an existing work. Copyright protection may extend to a description, explanation, or illustration, assuming that the requirements of the copyright law are met.
Copyright protects only the particular manner of an author's expression in literary, artistic, or musical form. Copyright protection does not extend to names, titles, short phrases, ideas, systems, or methods.
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SecretRecipes.com is not responsible for the outcome of any recipe you try from this website. Every recipe has been tested and reproduced carefully over the past 35 years, you may not always achieve the results desired due to variations in ingredients, cooking temperatures, typos, errors, omissions, or individual cooking abilities. Please always use your best judgment when cooking with raw ingredients such as eggs, chicken or fish.
Copy Cat Recipes
Gloria Pitzer does hold copyright and trademark, and does claim ownership, to any and all copy cat (restaurant or product clone) recipes listed on this website she has developed, tested and published in her numerous cookbooks and monthly newsletters over the past 35 years. However, the recipes listed on this site are not the original recipe(s) of the company or product they represent unless specifically stated to be as such and are to be considered only to be amazing "clones" to the original for the home cook to attempt to duplicate. Please also note that many nation-wide restaurant chains vary their menus and ingredients by region so the version provided may not be similar to what you may have tried before. Gloria Pitzer recipes and cookbooks are posted on SecretRecipes.com by permission from Gloria and Paul Pitzer
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