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Summary: Making a recipe book requires considering legal issues for recipes not written by the recipe book creator. Consider the legal issues of making a recipe book with tips from a professional chef in this free video on recipes.
Brandon Sarkis has been a professional chef for more than 12 years, and he has worked in Austin, Texas, Columbus, Ohio, and Atlanta, Ga. His specialties are Asian, French and...read more
"My name is Brandon Sarkus on behalf of expert village. Today I'm going to show you how to make your own recipe book. The next thing we can talk about is the legal aspect of it. Now if you are dealing with like say you know you are doing your compilation process and you've got a bunch of recipes like this that are all hand written. Then you are fine. As long as you know, as long as your buddy or whoever gave you this or even yourself it's ok with this being in print. But if you are dealing with you know we'll say, back up a page. This is obviously something I received a great many years ago. Say you are doing something like this where you know a friend of mine gave me a copy, whoopsie. A friend of mine gave me a copy of this recipe, well that's someone else's recipe and I can't legally reprint that to sell it. I can legally print it to give to somebody else so if you are going, if you are compiling a book and you are using recipes and you are using recipes from other people, it's very, very important, you have to note where you got them from and you have to get permission to use them. So I can't make a recipe, I can't make a cookbook of all my favorite recipes of the southwest using all my favorite southwest chef's recipes. I can't get like you know Jack Gilmore recipe and I can't get a Dean Ferring recipe and you know and a Steven Pyles recipe and put them in a book and say that's mine. I can't do that. Unless they give me expressed you know legal permission to do so but at that point it's not my cookbook nor is it really anything I've made. I've just basically compiled some recipes. Now I can't stress enough how important it is that if you are going to use someone else's recipes you got to get legal permission or a lot of times things like on the online, where the online sites the recipes are you know attributed to someone online and it's ok to print them for personal use. But you can't, it says so on the fine print. So you want to make sure you double check all that stuff and make sure you are clear before you go ahead and start you know printing up you know two dozen books to hand out to all your friends at work so. Just make sure you are legally covered and make sure you get all the right permissions and make sure you don't use something that belongs to somebody else."
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