On March 1st 2021, a Twitter user announced this
Tired of reading hundreds of words of life story, fashion hints, doggy pictures, waffle and irrelevance before reaching the recipes, they decided to strip out all but the most relevant to the actual recipe and repost it.
The backlash was immediate. Food writers, bloggers, etc all railed against the idea, some citing copyright violation issues, some saying that, even if copyright does not apply to recipes*, it is still morally reprehensible to 'steal' other peoples' work. Such was the clamour, that the site was taken down the same day it went up!
Now it just says:
* Copyright does not apply to lists of ingredients; it does apply to any descriptive text or instructions.
The unfolding story can be read here.
