Why do I have to register to print or use other features of RecipeLand.com?
When this site started in 1996 all features were open to all. The Internet community was a generally safe place and
visitors behaved appropriately. Today was are faced with constant abuse. Spammers, Bots, porn sites and others have increasingly been using and abusing web sites Internet wide. We have had to take steps to protect the web site and content from abuse.
We've found that the perpetrators of abuse don't like to register.
At one time we had the print page available to all visitors. The print page rapidly became abused by automated robots
proceeding to "suck" free content from us. Seems the nicely formatted print page made it too easy to steal content.
The worst part of this was the bandwidth costs. We have to pay for it.
Many competing sites, some very large, popular and successful commercially, have started their site using our content
without permission.
Initially we deleted the print page all together. Several years of requests by visitors for a print page convinced us
to put the print page back with it protected by registration. Seems content thieves don't like to register for some reason.
I found about the only website where they ask you for a password to print,is so you can track users...........
Actually most outfits that do user tracking would issue a long-term cookie with a unique id. No need for registration to track the visitors. Some banner ad serving companies do this.
RecipeLand.com does not engage in this behaviour. We do not track visitors, registered or not. Frankly, who would
have the time and resources to store the terabytes of information, much less process an use it for some purpose. For example
our webserver logs are so large they require a separate server to process them. We are looking for ways to cut back on
logging, not generate more.
Registration to print is not a mechanism to track users. It's to help prevent abuse. (see FAQ)
Where did you find all these recipes? How did you make the site?
From the on-line community. Many of the recipes have been provided by the online community before the Internet existed from
BBS's and FidoNet.
We made the site with perl and a SQL database server. By profession the site founder is an Internet Architect.
What possesed you to gather all these recipes?
At the time I started the site I was a bachelor and was sick of having to run to the store. You look up a recipe out of a book and then find several key ingredients you don't have. I created the site so I could check my shelf, key in the ingredients and come up with something to eat.
If a non-profit, family organization is compiling a recipe book to sell
as a fund-raising project, and would like to use some of the recipes on RecipeLand.com, would this be allowed? And what kind of copyright
permission would be needed? If allowed, how should credit be stated?
Recipes from RecipeLand.com can be used freely for non-profit and/or personal informational uses as far as I am concerned. The recipes themselves were taken via FTP in Mealmaster format from various sites quite some time ago. I then wrote perl scripts to process and massage them into a more usable format.
Therefore the actual legal copyright status for most of the recipes is unknown and this site may be in violation of any existing copyrights. But like many long term computer users (15+yrs now) I have a belief that information should be free to all who feel they need it. However, if profit is made by eg. datamining or mirroring the site then compensation and credit should be given.
As far as I'm concerned feel free to use the recipes for non-profit and or personal/informational uses and note the source of the recipe. eg. "Recipes found on the web site: http://www.recipeland.com/"
But also be aware that you may be violating someone elses copyright and are doing so at your own risk and I cannot accept responsibility for any consequences.
Legal cousel has indicated to me that recipes are very difficult to copyright and are easily made yours simply be rewriting the directions in your own words. It appears that you can not copyright a list of ingredients but can copyright the paragraph or two of directions that you wrote. Of course laws may vary depending on where you're at I suppose.
Where's the rest of the recipe?
Unfortunatly there's some recipes with missing directions. I have not checked every single recipe. There's nothing I can do to help. Try finding something similar to help direct you or maybe try posting a message to the online bulletin board for more assistance. Perhaps someone else is familar with how to make the recipe.
Please complete the Feedback form including the complete address of the recipe. eg. http://www.recipeland.com/recipe.epl?id=1. We will review and edit the recipe, removing it if needed.
What is the correct amount or this ingredient is missing. What do I do now?
Unfortunatly there's some recipes with missing ingredients or incorrect amounts. I have not checked every single recipe. There's nothing I can do to help. Try finding something similar to help direct you or maybe try posting a message to the online bulletin board for more assistance. Perhaps someone else is familar with how to make the recipe.
You should also send me an email including the complete URL of the recipe.
eg. http://www.recipeland.com/f/fairfax_chocolate_icing.html. I can take a look and
perhaps correct the recipe in the database.
If you send me the appropriate corrections I can add it into the recipe for others to use.
How do I submit my own recipes?
You can e-mail recipes to Recipe Submissions
