Re:Based Cooking
by cratermoon on Thursday March 11, 2021 @11:36AM
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> Very few recipes are just a minimal list of ingredients and steps though?
If you look in a traditional cookbook, yes. The online world is different, for all the reasons discussed here.
> unattributed stolen recipes probably isn't worth much as it won't have a reputation or branding.
That's the point, though, you can't "steal" a recipe. It can be a trade secret, like the original formula for Coca-Cola, but if that recipe were to get out anyone could make the same stuff, not call it Coca-Cola, and the Coca-Cola company couldn't do anything about it. At best they could try to find out how it leaked and pursue action under theft of trade secrets law.
If you look in a traditional cookbook, yes. The online world is different, for all the reasons discussed here.
> unattributed stolen recipes probably isn't worth much as it won't have a reputation or branding.
That's the point, though, you can't "steal" a recipe. It can be a trade secret, like the original formula for Coca-Cola, but if that recipe were to get out anyone could make the same stuff, not call it Coca-Cola, and the Coca-Cola company couldn't do anything about it. At best they could try to find out how it leaked and pursue action under theft of trade secrets law.