Recipes are not databases. You can repost a recipe straight up. The recipe itself is not copyrightable. The blog post/cookbook/etc which has a recipe embedded could be. (Copyrighted works can contain uncopyrightable elements)
If I take a picture of a recipe from a cookbook and post it, that is absolutely a copyright violation, as the specific presentation is a copyrighted work.
This is because you can't copyright facts or procedures, but you can copyright specific representations/presentations of those facts or procedures.
If I take that recipes, type it out, and post my own version? Yeah, that's totally fine.
> If I take that recipes, type it out, and post my own version?
You probably need to make sure that you change any elements that aren't either common standards of how recipes are written ("preheat oven to 350 degrees"), or absolutely dictated by the requirement to convey the procedure. Which for a recipe probably just amounts to a paraphrase at most. But I don't think you can get away with copying every recipe absolutely verbatim.
The real problem, of course, is that people with money, and adherents of certain ideologies presently popular among people with both money and power, are pressing for the widest possible definition of what's creative in every possible area, because they fundamentally think that the best policy is that absolutely everything should be ownable somehow.
I suspect that the actual practical result will be that if, as should happen and very well may happen in some countries, courts decide that copyright law doesn't cover ML models, legislators will just extend copyright law until it does.
You copied the fixed representation of that recipe and reproduced it. Yes, we agree. That is copyright infringement. You do not have that right.
Edit: I see my use of “repost” was the hinging confusion. Yes, that isn’t right. You can “reproduce the recipe”. When I said repost I meant copy and paste the text.
Be careful, even copying and pasting the text can get you in trouble depending on what's in that text (I suspect this is one of the reasons modern recipe websites include so much damn narrative crap, as it makes it easier to assert copyright ownership over the work), but I grant I'm kinda nitpicking at this point, I agree, I think we're on the same page. :)
