Restaurant Recipes: Copy Them, But Only for Personal Use
There are many sources available in printed as well as in electronic form that will tell you how to copy a restaurant recipe. This may be all very well but there is just a small question that needs to be answered which is, Is such copying legal or not? The answer must address this question because it is certainly not legal to copy music that is posted by others who use services for file-sharing to post songs in contravention of the law.
You must also be aware of the FBI stickers on the DVDs we buy or rent. So, is it legal to copy restaurant recipes or not? You may be innocently being passing the instructions on cooking restaurant dishes or actually cooking such dishes for the pleasure of serving it among your close friends and family members. The answer thankfully seems to be that cooking up a copy of a restaurant recipe does not violate the law and you won’t need to hire a lawyer to fight a law case filed against you by the restaurant.
However, if the same were to occur in a privately owned restaurant then you would be in violation of the law and it would be illegal to copy restaurant recipes even if you rename the dishes you serve in your restaurant to something totally different from the original. This is where you have to tread carefully otherwise the copied restaurant recipe can land you in hot water. If your intention is to use copied restaurant recipes in a business enterprise then you should consult your lawyer before proceeding further.
Entertaining Friends
Cooking restaurant recipes at home for serving to friends and family is not against the law and so you can experience the pleasure of this harmless private pursuit. If this was not so, then one would be hard pressed to explain how so many copied restaurant recipes are freely available to anyone interested. You must surely have loved the many delectable dishes that you have tried out in a restaurant.
It is but natural that you want to try your hand at making at home a restaurant recipe whose instructions you can find on the website of some online company providing these restaurant recipes for free. The internet is certainly a wonderful resource that makes it possible to get the lowdown on restaurant recipes without having to pay for them, and also without breaking the law when copying them at home. So, feel free to experiment at home, but tread carefully if you are thinking of making a business out of such copies.
