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Old 07-05-2008, 09:36 PM
Trakehner Trakehner is offline
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Originally Posted by Kuan View Post
What you are copyrighting is the actual words, ie., the ingredient list and method, not the thing itself. You cannot lift the recipe wholesale and republish it without permission, but anyone can make the torte itself. OTOH, someone can change the order of your words, write their own description, and still have the "same" recipe.
Oh I see, thank you very much Kuan. So, that's why the Imperial Torte kind of reverses ingredients of the Sacher Torte lol. It will be nice though having a dessert named after me on the menu.
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