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Posting recipies on my Blog – a copyright violation??

If I want to do a review of a recipe that I found in a cookbook, or magazine and post it on my blog , do I have to get the publishers permission to do so? I plan to give proper citation of it’s source, as well as retype the recipe it exactly as it was printed. I do have google ads on my blog, but I don’t know if that means anything.

Recipes can’t be copyrighted. Compilations of recipes (cookbooks) do have a copyright.

Advertising, or other commercial purpose, wouldn’t really make a difference if you were infringing a copyright.

Here’s a snipped from a copyright office flyer:
“This is in response to your inquiry regarding the copyright registration of recipes. Mere listings of ingredients as in recipes, formulas, compounds or prescriptions are not subject to copyright protection. However, where 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.”

The entire flyer can be found at: http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl122.pdf

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