Rule for posting recipes from a different public web site?

[Chef #770329]

I've been using a recipe that I recently found on an individuals public web site that I would like to post on Food.com. Are there any restrictions or requirements for posting someone else's recipe? I have already search Food.com and I do not find this recipe posted.

[Molly53]

Chef 770329 wrote:
I've been using a recipe that I recently found on an individuals public web site that I would like to post on Food.com. Are there any restrictions or requirements for posting someone else's recipe? I have already search Food.com and I do not find this recipe posted.

From Food.com's FAQ's: A list of ingredients is a list of ingredients; the government doesn't care if you make them your own and neither do we. But when it comes to other people's recipe descriptions and directions, don't copy the flowery stuff -- put it in your own words. You probably made the recipe, and you probably did it slightly differently than the original directions anyway. Describe what you did. If you copy the literary work of someone else, post it on Food.com, and they notify us with proof of the violation, we will immediately remove your recipe and you could be liable for damages. If someone else copies your recipes from our site and uses them, we would want to protect your original work and demand they be removed. So don't copy.

However, we encourage our users to try recipes from other places, and post them to Food.com in their own words or with their own variations. We don't mind if you include information about where you got the recipe from as long as the description and directions are in your own words ("giving credit" is always the right thing to do)."