August 2006 Weddings
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Those with food blogs
What's Cooking has several posts about infringing on copyright when putting a recipe in your blog. A nestie got a letter from Cooking Light.
Link to the first post: http://community.thenest.com/cs/ks/forums/thread/8672476.aspx
Slainte!
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Re: Those with food blogs
Hmm. Good thing no more than seven people actually read my blog.
Very interesting, thanks for the heads up. I've only been posting recipes that are available on the web, eg nothing out of cookbooks. I'd been operating under the assumption that since it's publicity for them and I'm not using it for commercial use, you'd think they'd not care.
But this is good info to know.
I call shenanigans. This sounded fishy to me. Here's what the Copyright Office has to say:
Mere listings of ingredients as in recipes, formulas, compounds, or prescriptions are not subject to copyright protection. However, when a recipe or formula is accompanied by substantial literary expression in the form of an explanation or directions, or when there is a combination of recipes, as in a cookbook, there may be a basis for copyright protection.
Protection under the copyright law (title 17 of the United States Code, section 102) extends only to ?original works of authorship? that are fixed in a tangible form (a copy). ?Original? means merely that the author produced the work by his own intellectual effort, as distinguished from copying an existing work. Copyright protection may extend to a description, explanation, or illustration, assuming that the requirements of the copyright law are met.
For information on how to register, see SL-35. For further information on copyright, deposit requirements, and registration procedures, see Circular 1, Copyright Basics. The deposit requirements depend on whether the work has been published at the time of registration:
Copyright protects only the particular manner of an author?s expression in literary, artistic, or musical form. Copyright protection does not extend to names, titles, short phrases, ideas, systems, or methods.
So it sounds like you just have to change the words. And if you change anything about the recipe, it's unique!
yeah what BB said.
Lists of ingredients are not copywrite-able. Generic directions where there is no other normal way to say it "beat eggs till stiff" "bake at 350" "drop by teaspoons 2 inches apart" are not copywrite-able either.
And that is really most of what recipes are - any commentary needs to be removed/made your own. Follow those guidelines, and they have no leg to stand on.