I'm working on doing a series of Youtube type cooking shows for people with celiac disease and gluten intolerance. I'm going to be doing just short shows, but who knows, if it gets a following it might grow into something big, so I want to start out doing everything properly as far as professionalism and courtesy goes.
My questions are about recipes, and at what point you can honorably call a recipe your own creation. I did some searching on the board and found some discussions on copyright, so I know that if you use the same ingredients and just rewrite the process, legally it's now your recipe. But is that frowned upon?
For example, if I find a recipe on a recipe board and changed one thing (other than just making it GF), and then called it mine and "sold" it as mine on my show, would that make the writer of the original recipe upset? Would that be stepping on toes? Or is that just how new recipes are written?
Also, if you create a new version of a recipe, is it customary to then rename the recipe? My guess is that if it's a basic recipe, like chicken and dumplings, you can call it chicken and dumplings no matter what you do with it. But if it's a recipe that someone just named something like Super Spicy Chicken, you'd want to rename it something else. Am I on the right track with this?
Nancy
My questions are about recipes, and at what point you can honorably call a recipe your own creation. I did some searching on the board and found some discussions on copyright, so I know that if you use the same ingredients and just rewrite the process, legally it's now your recipe. But is that frowned upon?
For example, if I find a recipe on a recipe board and changed one thing (other than just making it GF), and then called it mine and "sold" it as mine on my show, would that make the writer of the original recipe upset? Would that be stepping on toes? Or is that just how new recipes are written?
Also, if you create a new version of a recipe, is it customary to then rename the recipe? My guess is that if it's a basic recipe, like chicken and dumplings, you can call it chicken and dumplings no matter what you do with it. But if it's a recipe that someone just named something like Super Spicy Chicken, you'd want to rename it something else. Am I on the right track with this?
Nancy
