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Re:Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine by madamelic on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @01:18PM (#29165253)
It's actually not SEO fodder (necessarily).

Recipes are not copyrightable but if you pair a recipe with a story, the entire deliverable is copyrightable [0] because the recipe becomes a work of expression rather than a rote list.

> In other words, a bare recipe, without literary expression, is not copyrightable

[0]: https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=3741a5c0-f146....

Re:Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine by cacois on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @04:54PM (#29168034)
Interesting point, I hadn't considered this.