05 Jan 2006
Can a Recipe Be Stolen?

Will this ever end? How may kitchen formulas are mere variations on a theme, and what are the implications of our out of control copyright regime on the culinary arts?

On the plus side, if there's one thing that'll get the problem noticed by Middle America it's depriving the homemaker's clubs and ladies church groups of their annual recipe books.

Like most teenagers, Dana Simms and 11 other members of the Tilden Woods Swim Team know more about iPods and Google than about pea pods and kugel. So when they began soliciting recipes for a cookbook to benefit cancer research last summer, they were startled that technology and cooking converged.

(link) [Washington Post]

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