Help! Recipe booklet for charity - copyright issues??

willow81

I am trying to put together a recipe booklet for a local charity but I'm afraid of using open source recipes in order for a charity to profit in case there are copyright repercussions.

All moneys from the booklet will go directly to the charity and the publication costs are being split between two volunteers.

I can only find one recipe for free 'charity' use on the Delia website. I need approximately 20 recipes preferably festive or winter recipes.

I really wanted to get this made before the 8th December so it can be sold at a Christmas fair and I'm running out of time.

Any ideas anyone? Any help would be really appreciated.

vicshippers

Use smaller blogs or websites for the recipes and contact the webmaster before you copy the recipe out - I'm sure they won't argue seeing that it's for a good cause.

Horace

Ask folks that you know - or even advertise via the charity newsletter and ask for people to send in their recipes. You could note down then that it was Aunty Mollie's Apple Crumble or whatever.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

our local church has done this in the past to raise funds...

they asked the local chruch goers to give them a recipe..

to be honest if it was me and i seen a reciepe i wanted to copy, why dont you 'tweak' it and slightly change it add a diff herb or ingredient...

or have a 'leftover' recipe book....

jamesb1239

Or the obvious one, ask MSE, there are a wealth of recipies over on the old style board and i'm sure i read somewhere that MSE has the rights to the copyright of all posts on the site.

paulwf

I would try and get recipes from local restaurants as that keeps with the "local" theme of the charity. The business gets some exposure in exchange for a recipe.