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I've come to realize there are very few actually good recipes online that don't come from a small number of websites. Serious Eats being a major one.
What are the other ones that you know of?
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Give me a break. >empirical technique he devised in-house to come up with recipes people love This doesn't even mean anything. Empty words.
"An empirical technique to come up with recipes people love" includes "picking the most popular recipes from other websites."
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Correct, that is a copyright violation. Based on the links above Tasty's videos are neither plagiarism, which is an offense in academia, but not commerce, nor Copyright, the commercial equivalent, which does not protect recipes.
But do you understand that it's ethically wrong, regardless of whether or not it's illegal or formally defined? At a minimum, it's rude to copy someone's work without thanking them. You shouldn't need a higher authority to tell you this is wrong.
If snippets of the video were direct cuts from another show, that's a different story. But making a dish yourself and filming it is your own creation, I don't see why you have to thank anyone for it.
I'm not surprised. Some of the early BuzzFeed people came from Demand Media, which if you remember brought you the seo spam machine that was eHow. BuzzFeed uses a lot of the same tactics we used, but they're more protected now because of social media. I can't imagine Facebook/Instagram/etc doing a "panda-esq" update to stop them.
> they're more protected now because of social media I'm sorry, I don't understand. The techniques, or BuzzFeed? And how does social media protect them?
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Recipes are not copyrightable, and I'd argue that it's actually beneficial to all of us to exchange recipes freely and allow for commercial reuse. Food is an important and quantifiable part of our lives, and improving it is a collective effort. As I support scientific papers "theft" by Scihub, in the same way I support Buzzfeed propagating good food.
Providing proper attribution does not in any way prevent you from exchanging recipes freely.
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Providing proper attribution does not in any way prevent you from exchanging recipes freely.
Well, as Sci-hub doesn't push links to Elsevier in every paper they obtain, you shouldn't expect BuzzFeed attributing food blogs. However, I do not defend BuzzFeed's actions, and it would probably be better off for everyone if they contacted SeriousEats up front for a bit of exclusive content. But as an amateur chef and nutrition enthusiast, I'm all happy when interesting recipes get pushed beyond their original webs…
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But do you understand that it's ethically wrong, regardless of whether or not it's illegal or formally defined? At a minimum, it's rude to copy someone's work without thanking them. You shouldn't need a higher authority to tell you this is wrong.
I'm not sure it's ethically wrong to take something in the public domain which holds no license or copyright whatsoever, and use it without attribution. If snippets of the video were direct cuts from another show, that's a different story. But making a dish yourself and filming it is your own creation, I don't see why you have to thank anyone for it.
It's equivalent to performing a symphony, but not mentioning the music was written by Beethoven. Not illegal, but wrong, even if you don't explicitly claim it's your own work.
Call me pedantic, but first thing I noticed that the video has 350°C/175°C and I suppose that should be F/C :P
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You're correct, they are the equivalent of food designers, at photo shoots. It's meant to look good on film, and nothing else. I wouldn't be surprised if the end result was not even real food on Buzzfeed. Using Elmers glue for milk on cereal, etc.
BuzzFeed-er here, in the NY office, where Tasty is produced: The leftovers from every shoot are eaten by employees, and they go fast.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/ariellecalderon/more-sugar-more-pro...
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Sure, but that is not relevant to the point of all the flavouring being of the cheap, unhealthy variety, is it? Unless you mean that in a "it's worse than that" way
Referring to cauliflower as "healthy" is dubious. It's healthy in the same sense that cotton is.
The "cotton" remark reminds me of the Cannibal Mouse episode of Mythbusters that will never be aired: