<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Noble Librarian!</div><div><br></div><div>Greetings from Solveig!</div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The list of ingredients is not perhaps copyrightable, but</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">if you copy the title and reproduce a list of ingredients intact without<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">changes,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">that falls under plagiarism (rights and permissions) and you can get<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">sued for that.</div></blockquote><div><br></div>Oh come now, plagiarism (passing off other's stuff as your own) may be </div><div>immoral, but the law concerns copyright.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">(Look up the Martha Stewart Barbara Tropp recipe scandal of</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">the 1980's and the Richard Nelson affair. Or see 2006's article "Can a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Recipe be stolen?"</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/03/AR2006010300316.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/03/AR2006010300316.html</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">)</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Here is a note I found about Martha Stewart plagiarizing Barbara Tropp's recipes. Notice that the key ingredient here is that Martha Stewart was passing off Barbara Tropp's recipes as being her own invention. Copyright was not the issue at hand.</div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px; line-height: 26.0px"><blockquote type="cite"><font face="Georgia" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Georgia">Several cooks and food writers noticed that Stewart had stolen recipes and passed them off as her own. One of these writers was Barbara Tropp. Tropp told Jerry Oppenheimer she recognized recipes she herself had created and published in magazines. "It was clear to me," she said, "that Martha Stewart had lifted my work without attribution."</font></blockquote><a href="http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/businesses/M-Z/Stewart-Martha.html">http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/businesses/M-Z/Stewart-Martha.html</a></p></div>From the article you cited:</div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><blockquote type="cite"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 17.0px Times New Roman">"What this reflects is a rising awareness over the last 20 years of copyright issues . . . and the chilling effect of copyright enforcement . . . people being intimidated out of using basic common sense about things that would or should never generate a lawsuit," said Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of "Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity."</font></blockquote></p></div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>Your Humble Servant</div><div>Solveig Throndardottir</div><div>Amateur Scholar</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>