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From: ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig)
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Subject: Re: Copyright and cookbooks
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Date: Thu, 20-Mar-86 13:51:20 EST
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> * The copyright does not cover the formula of a recipe. It covers the words
>  used to describe the recipe. If you rewrite the words, and leave the formula
>  alone, you are not violating anybody's copyright.

I don't believe it.  Are you saying that the copyright law has a
specific treatment of recipes?  Otherwise, my understanding is that
a paraphrase is a copy.