[blibble]

not sure what Congress has to do with a case in the UK

fair use is mostly a US concept, there is no such thing in the UK or most other countries

[bobthepanda]

It seems like UK and EU agree that you cannot copyright a recipe other than maybe the exact way it was written:

https://www.twobirds.com/en/insights/2020/uk/intellectual-pr...

https://www.copyright.eu/docs/protection-of-a-recipe/

Though you can patent novel methods of food production, which is also true in the US.

The root statement is still the same, legislatures can amend copyright laws as they wish if they really care. I don’t know that the UK parliament is exactly functioning well right now, but that’s my impression from across the pond.

[blibble]

> I don’t know that the UK parliament is exactly functioning well right now

in terms of ability to legislate it works considerably better than the US congress

up to you if you call that well functioning

[surfacedetail]

You can only copyright the actual expression of a recipe as a literary work, but the functional aspect, the cake let's say, isn't copyrightable.