Recipe Plagiarism?!
Recipe Plagiarism?
I am going to start a site for my friends and family to share recipes of my own and recipes I have found in books and online. My question is: Can recipes be plagiarised? Obviously, any recipe you look for online (or books) , there are duplicates or even thousands of recipes with the same name,idea or even wording. I plan to list the site or book in which I found them, but if someone comes across them, can I get charged with plagiarism, even though I have sited my source? I don't understand how any one person can own a recipe. I have tried to do some research, and it states that even changing the ingredients around it does not make it yours. Obviously I can make a recipe for anything, but like I stated above, there are thousands of variations. Can someone please help me with this? Thank you.
Answers:
If you are NOT going to charge for the information, then no problem.
You may want to consider just putting a quick disclaimer on your site that expresses that your information is a "compilation of gathered works" and that "you do not claim to be the original author of anything material contained there in."