Recipes Archives - Sara Hawkins Attorney at Law

True Story: A Bigger Blogger Took My Recipe

Today I came across a series of tweets about a food blogger who was upset that another blogger took her photo and recipe, reproduced it on her site while providing a credit and link back in smaller text but also tagged the original blogger on Facebook. Earlier in the week, Confessions of a Cookbook Queen [...]

Copyright and Recipes In Plain English

Recipe Copyright Explained in Plain English One of the most asked questions I get has to do with recipe copyright. It's very upsetting for food bloggers to see their work copied verbatim. Unfortunately, unlike photos or images, all words don't carry the same weight when it comes to copyright. Recipes are one of those [...]