Selling Recipes

[Zeeks]

What is the name of your state? Washington

My wife and I are looking into selling a compilation of recipes. Can we use printed recipes if we have only changed one of the ingredients? i.e. changing from all purpose flour to whole wheat flour....Thanks

 

[I AM ALWAYS LIABLE]

What is the name of your state? Washington

My wife and I are looking into selling a compilation of recipes. Can we use printed recipes if we have only changed one of the ingredients? i.e. changing from all purpose flour to whole wheat flour....Thanks

My response:

Boy, if I had a dime for every cook book on the market, I'd be wealthy - - - no, wait . . . I am wealthy!

Anyway, you don't need to change anything. Recipes for anything are not copyrightable or patentable or anything. You can literally copy someone else's recipe, verbatim, and print it in any book you want.

Did you know, the same thing goes for perfumes too?

IAAL

 

[Reddman]

I recently looked into this and learned that the list of ingredients is not copyrighted, but the instructions may be. (according to copyright.gov)

The safest thing would be to rewrite the instructions.