[xs]

Wait a minute... What about copyright? Like I would love to have a blog where I can just copy and paste my favorite recipes, and add a few notes myself. But I don't do that because it seems like plagiarism.

Or another option is to use this site, and then use some kind of 1-5 star rating. And then just see my favorites without all the other bs that food sites show you.

[jabo]

I got the source dataset from this Show HN earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25356156

Here's a comment thread that talks about copyright: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25358813

[yojo]

IANAL, but as I understand it the ingredient list is not copyright able, though the description may contain sufficient creative content to qualify. There’s even an FAQ covering it. https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-protect.html

[6gvONxR4sf7o]

From your linked page:

> However, where a recipe or formula is accompanied by substantial literary expression in the form of an explanation or directions, or when there is a collection of recipes as in a cookbook, there may be a basis for copyright protection.

Emphasis mine. A website full of recipes certainly seems to be a collection in the sense protecting a cookbook.

[6gvONxR4sf7o]

Seriously. I did a similar massive recipe scraping project a few years ago but never would have redistributed it because it’s available for me to use, but not available for me to redistribute.

For a site that gets so opinionated about GPLv3 vs LGPL vs the rest, we really seem to have no qualms about licenses when it comes to actually using other people’s things.

[sillysaurusx]

The authors can file a DMCA. If they don't, there's no issue. If they do, the law will sort it out.

Though it sounds like a flippant response, I've spent a lot of time trying to decide how to feel about this. (I released 194k plaintext books as the books3 dataset.)

[6gvONxR4sf7o]

> If they don’t there’s no issue.

This doesn’t seem right, like saying if you shoplift and nobody comes after you, then there’s no issue.

[kaetemi]

Copyrights apply to the literal text of a recipe, but not to a recipe itself. Recipes are not copyrightable last time I checked, just the literal text.

[6gvONxR4sf7o]

A collection of recipes is copyrightable though. I think recipe vs collection of recipes is one of the canonical examples.