<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!<blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Yes, copying the redaction or any additional writing regarding the recipe and not properly citing/licensing the use is breaking copyright law. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div></blockquote>Sorry, but a redaction is just a recipe. This most likely places it outside of copyright in the United States.<br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I notice that in the replies to this question, the lawsuits mentioned are regarding the use of modern recipes, not recipes dating to the Renaissance- the author has been long dead and the copyright on the recipe itself is long gone, and even if you are plagerizing, I doubt the author will try to sue you. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div></blockquote>The judges in the lawsuits in question ruled that recipes can not be copyrighted, even if they are modern.<br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I do know that there are extra issues should you want to use images of, say, a painting from a museum, but I believe it's a separate issue altogether.</div></blockquote>Various museums and photographers are trying to assert copyright over these images. However, the last time it was litigated, the court ruled that this sort of</div><div>image is not eligible for copyright. Further, the more faithful the image, the weaker the copyright claim is. If for instance you drew a handlebar moustache on a faithful reproduction of the Mona Lisa, then you will probably have created a new piece of art which is copyrightable to you. However, anyone can produce a faithful reproduction of the Mona Lisa, make sketches of the Mona Lisa, &c.</div><div><br></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>