Post #116816 by Tiki-Toa on Tue, Sep 28, 2004 9:50 AM

On 2004-09-27 08:53, finkdaddy wrote:
Please help me settle a debate I'm having with a co-worker.

Is there any legal danger at all in using a recipe from a book in a place of business?

For instance, if I served a Missionary's Downfall in a bar using the same name and recipe from the Grog Log, would that be illegal in any way?

Going back to your original question....if you wanted to use a drink to name a bar such as you said then you would want to contact the author and have a discussion, maybe pay him a bit for the rights to use the name and the drink. I think it is a hard question to ask though that if you took Berry's Log and used it as the foundation for a establishments drink menu whether that would be illegal, I am curious myself and I agree in the thought that would that be any different then using the Bartender's Guide? But even then you said the discussion you were having with the co-worker was about serving drinks from a book, it might depend on what the book says, does it say anywhere in it that the recipes are limited in their use? Man so many ways to look at this, I think I need a drink.