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Edible Plagiarism: Reconsidering Recipe Copyright In The Digital Age, Meredith G. Lawrence
Edible Plagiarism: Reconsidering Recipe Copyright In The Digital Age, Meredith G. Lawrence
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
Sharing recipes through food blogs is an increasingly popular activity. Bloggers publish their own recipes, claiming copyright protection, but they also publish others' recipes. Food publishers who distribute recipes online may be harmed when bloggers include the entire text of the food publisher's recipe on a blog without the publisher's knowledge or permission. The blogger's inclusion of an entire recipe often reduces site traffic to the food publisher's website, thereby damaging advertising revenues. Copyright law, as courts interpret it today, does not provide these publishers with recourse against bloggers who publish their recipes without permission.
This Note analyzes the various …