According to recent news reports, the Food Network says Anne Thornton plagiarized recipes from the likes of Martha Stewart and Ina Garten (the Barefoot Contessa). That’s the reason her show, Dessert First, has not been renewed for another season.
Plagiarizing recipes sounds like an odd reason for a firing. First, plagiarism is a term commonly reserved for academic works. Copyright might be the term one might use for snatching a recipe – except there generally is no copyright protection for recipes. Recent illustrations of the extent to which recipes cannot be copyrighted include the copyright infringement lawsuit over Jessica Seinfeld’s cookbook and its resolution.
The last quote from Anne Thornton in the news video is apt. There are only so many ways one can make a cupcake or chocolate frosting.
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