Hello, Censors

Dear Censors: You’re so brave to come down hard on those who formally ask to reprint recipes legally. We’re now in your gunsights and all those who reprint your recipes willy-nilly are safe. It’s the good guys who ask permission who are surveilled. Sounds like TSA and homeland security. Give me your bra, ma’am. It appears to have underwire in it.

Dear Readers: I’m very new at blogging and whenever I ask to reprint a recipe with appropriate credit (the last one was published in 1990 so people are not knocking down the door to get it) my request was summarily denied by Conde Nasty.

Other bloggers are having the same problem dealing with copyrights. I believe that publishers and bloggers, since they are destined to co-exist, should come to some sort of truce.

I know that if you want a recipe you want the recipe and not a link to a recipe and certainly not something I’ve amended to meet my family’s needs that was inspired by a published recipe that is copyrighted and I can be sued for sharing with you.

So I must tell you that recipe-wise, I’ve hit a bit of a brick wall until I can sort this out. Please let me know what you’d like to see on this site. Just register and post. Don’t use your real name and just let me know what you think. You can be bestgreekcook or whatever! I don’t ever find out who you are.

I’ll keep writing and hope you enjoy and respond to my posts. Enjoy your day!

2 responses to “Hello, Censors

  1. Thank you for adding your voice to this!

  2. Anything I can do, Melissa. We’re all in the same boat when it comes to intellectual property.

    btw my app to join leftoverqueen’s blogroll was rejected today. I wrote in to nicely ask why. This does look like a real food blog to you, right? Dee

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