Comment by lelanthran
15 hours ago
> But recipes still are protected intellectual property by trade secret law if they are treated as a secret by the holder of the recipe.
Trade secrets aren't very well protected, though.
You can sue the person who leaked/stole your secret, but if others keep sharing it once it is leaked you can do nothing to them.
i wasn't advocating for trade secrets as "equal" or "the way to go", i was trying to explain in simple terms how to think about copyright issues in concordance with the existing legal structures
people here who have not much experience were intellectually trying to reinvent wheels and I wanted to save them time in structuring their arguments. I have been exposed to various tips of the legal iceberg and was thrilled to learn what I learned and trying to pass it on.