Georg Greve says,
“Found this morning in the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper — A German Guide Michelin star chef and restaurant owner in Rome asks for the invention of a copyright-like right on cooking recipes. Would that be a cookyright?”
Marc “Celebrated Open Source Hacker Chef” Powell makes a raspberry sound with his mouth and scoffs,
Cute name! Of course the reason you cannot copyright recipes is because they are just an uncopyrightable list of ingredients. You can copyright the text of the preparation process, though.
But every chef rips off every other chef, so there’s prior art
EVERYWHERE — and in this case, fair use propels the artform forward — so that chef saying that cooking is a creative art form — it wouldnt be so creative without ripping off Escoffier, Careme and all of the home cooks that cant afford copyright lawyers yet have created Italian cuisine, German cuisine, whatever!
Previously on Boing Boing:
“Xeni Tech” on NPR: Food Hackers make high-tech geek eats