Unfortunaterly, the advice you have been given is somewhat misleading. There is no such thing as "fair use" in UK law - that's US law and it is incorrect to apply it to a UK situation. In contrast to fair use, fair dealing in the UK can only apply for a few permitted purposes (non-commercial research or private study, reporting current events, criticism or review), and none of those purposes appear to apply to the sugested application to a book club.
Each individual recipe is a copyright work in its own right. There is also database rights in a collection of recipes, and even taking one recipe from a colection might be considerated to be substantial extraction and reuse. So database rights might also be infringed.
Nonethess, because of the modest amount of copying and small number of people receiving the copies, the rights owners might not become aware of the copying, or even if they do, are not sufficiently bothered by it to complain.
To conclude: what is proposed is almost certainly infringement, but the risk is small.
Charles
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From: Library and Information Professionals [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sarah Bruch (Hywel Dda Health Board - ) [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 22 October 2010 09:27
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Subject: Copyright and Recipes
Hello,
This is my Friday question. We have a bookclub in the library that has its own blog (see my signature). We also have cakes and treats at the bookclub as well as books. The club and i were wondering about the copyright issues around putting a recipe from a book onto our blog (we would reference it correctly of course). I can't find anything much to say that recipes are even under copyright. If anyone knows of any reason why we can't put one or two recipes from individual books that we've used with correct referencing please could you let me know.
Thanks,
Sarah
Enw/Name: Sarah Bruch BSc (Hons), MScDip
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