[Sca-librarians] copyright on recipe

[Solveig Throndardottir]

Noble Librarians!

> Technically yes (a reprint invokes a new copyright)

Bull Pucky! A reprint does not extend copyright. New material in a  
new edition does extend copyright for at least the new material.  
Currently, new material copyrighted by a natural person is owned by  
that person under US law for their lifetime plus something like an  
additional 70 years. Copyright owned by a corporation or other  
artificial person is copyrighted for a specific number of years from  
either the time of publication or the time of creation of the  
copyrighted work. Regardless, a reprint is just that, a reprint. It does
not in any way constitute an original act of authorship and does not  
get its own copyright.

> The new author's redaction is copyrighted to her.

Sorry, still not copyrightable. Neither are lists or tables. There  
are books out there specifically about writing cookbooks and to what  
extent copyright applies to them. Extra material surrounding the  
recipe is copyrightable, but not the recipe itself.

Your Humble Servant
Solveig Throndardottir
Amateur Scholar




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