Can You Copyright Protect A Recipe, Architecture, Diary Or Elvis Sighting?
Can You Copyright Protect A Recipe, Architecture, Diary Or Elvis Sighting? Answer: A list of recipe ingredients is not protected under copyright law. However, you can copyright if the recipe is accompanied by a substantial amount of literary expression including explanations or directions. You also can copyright a collection of recipes as in a cookbook. Architecture Architectural works became subject to copyright protection on December 1, 1990. Copyright law defines “architectural work” as “the design of a building embodied in any tangible medium of expression, including a building, architectural plans, or drawings.” Copyright protection extends to any architectural work created on or after December 1, 1990. Diary You can register copyright in the diary only if you are the author or the transferee (by will, by inheritance). Copyright is the right of the author of the work or the author’s heirs or assignees, not of the one who only owns or possesses the physical work itself.
