In der Washington Post war letzte Woche ein Artikel, welcher der Frage nachging, ob und inwiefern Kochrezepte unter dem Copyright stehen: Can a Recipe Be Stolen?
„We all know about plagiarism, copyright and intellectual property rights issues, but we hadn’t given them a thought when it came to the cookbook,“ said Simms, a junior at Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda. When a potential contributor fretted about handing over a recipe for Toll House cookies that appears online, in many cookbooks – and on bags of semisweet chocolate chips – „we did begin to worry a little,“ she said.
The girls knew the legal concepts from high school, and copyright and intellectual property issues were being drummed into them because of lawsuits on downloading music into MP3 players and iPods. But here were similar issues in the kitchen.