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by CrazyStat 2232 days ago
> I think you can list ingredients of a recipe with no problem, but once you get to exact measurements and prep it somehow switches over to falling under copyright law.

In the US, recipes are not protected by copyright, including precise measurements and instructions for how to combine them.

If you write sufficiently creative instructions those may be protected by copyright, but I can get around that by simply not replicating those instructions. I can give exactly the same list of ingredients and a less-creative set of instructions for the same dish without infringing your copyright.

Copyright.gov has a circular which explains this with a couple examples [1].

[1] https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ33.pdf