Your Recipe © 2010 No One

One thing I like about recipes is you can’t copyright them.  So long as you’re only posting the actual ingredients, amounts and the method to create the recipe, they are not subject to copyright protection.  This is great news for me since I don’t really have to deal with people posting recipes from other sites, cookbooks, etc.  I’ll never get into a YouTube style legal battle with angry recipe owners.

Furthermore, any recipe published before 1923 is considered public domain.  I can just import those to my heart’s content, including any literary description, pictures, etc.  There’s a ton of archives online that will make populating my recipe database quite a bit easier.