It is interesting that in the world of lacemaking we seem to have to issues; people wanting to pass on knowledge but not understanding the impact of their actions and others trying to profit from the work of others by selling on other people's work.
In my other life, there is a massive problem with the copyright of recipes. In order to claim that our recipe is yours you have to have made massive changes to someone else's. you can't just put a recipe up on your blog with pictures and claim it as your own or worse still give no acknowledgement. There was a scandal in the gf community some years ago when they realised that a guy had been putting up recipes that weren't his. He had never claimed that there his but again hadn't said that they weren't. I have two recipes that I've put on to my cooking website. One is a no wait chocolate brownie which I've taken over 5 years to perfect and the other is a chocolate chip cookie which my home economist developed and I developed for work the gluten free version so we agreed that I could use the gf version on my site but the company can also use it. What I didn't understand are the number of food bloggers who try to pass off other people's recipes but I've been speaking to a food blogger at work and it seems that they can get paid sponsorship from visits to their pages and of course they are all hoping to be the next Paul Hollywood or Julia Child and to be picked up. We test and test and test our recipes but these people often put up untested recipes or change one thing thinking it will get them off the hook so when you make it it doesn't work. Ad don't get me onto the recipes we have submitted in competitors at work or by professional chefs. Kind Regards Liz Baker On 27 May 2013, at 16:54, Devon wrote: > I am finding this to be a very interesting conversation, since members of > our little community are actually probably among the most copyright > observant of people. > <snipped> - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
