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Re:A single character code change by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday January 02, 2020 @02:12PM (#21938622)
... but wouldn't you just copy the recipe part anyways? If the narrative part is the copyrighted part, just don't copy that, thus ensuring that you're legally okay AND you only keep the part that's actually useful.
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Re:A single character code change by vharuck on Thursday January 02, 2020 @02:25PM (#21938762)
The "trick" is that the recipe is now part of a larger copyrighted work, so it's covered by the copyright. Of course, I doubt it'd be easy to win a trial if somebody did this unless it was literally copied verbatim.
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Re:A single character code change by beerandt on Thursday January 02, 2020 @03:13PM (#21939316)
Not an extracted recipe. Only as a part of the whole work. So if you copy the page, it's copyright-able, but not if you copy and paste just the recipe.
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