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Leigh0725 said:Ok, so I have to admit that I emailed that gal who wrote the artile to ask if she happen to know about the rules of the contest. Hey, I figure since the author's email address was posted with the article, why not. Maybe I'm not more curious than anything.
I did. I didn't post that I did because I didn't want to get flamed about it. I sent a note to the Test Kitchen. I buttered them up first with a genuine compliment about the new recipes this season, then I mentioned that we may have found an instance of copyright infringement, and I gave them the link to the article.katie0128 said:In general, I think they are correct. And if the contest required original submissions, I don't think it is up to the newspaper to try to verify the authenticity of it. However, in this situation, there should be little doubt in anyone's mind that this recipe is not original... the chance of this being a coinsidence is about the same as the 1000 monkeys with typwriters recreating Shakespere. Anyone contact HO about it?
Hello, Ann!
Thank you so much for contacting The Pampered Chef Test Kitchen hotline!
This is very interesting. I will forward the article to our legal
department. I wonder what the legal ramifications are for this sort of
thing. If I happen to hear the outcome from our legal department, I'll
let you know.
Thank you again for alerting us to this copyright infringement. You and
our other Consultants are our eyes and ears to what we sometimes cannot
see.
Have a wonderful day!
Sincerely,
Joanne
jrstephens said:I always did want to be a criminologists!!!!
If you get a reward you better share it with the rest of your Detective-Wanna-Bees!chefann said:Chef Success Detective Agency strikes again! Thanks to ParishKitchen for the original post.
chefann said:We've all got favorite recipes that are based on published ones, but really. This is just beyond the pale.
BTW- the Pillsbury Bake-Off requires that recipes be different from published recipes by at least 2 or 3 ingredients. Otherwise, they're considered a variation instead of an original recipe.
katie0128 said:But, I'm sure if you look hard enough, not all PC recipes are completely original either... after all the test kitchen people eat like the rest of us and I assume use their personal experiences to "perfect" other recipes they have tasted through the years. But at the same time, I'm going out on a limb and will assume that the test kitchen staff have enough integrity to change more than two or three ingredients before calling it "an original PC recipe".
I was wondering about that... someone taking our cookbooks, copying each recipe, changing the name and maybe a few ingredients and call it their own ?crissy11 said:I had a Home and Garden party a couple of years ago and was looking in their cookbook and found several Pampered Chef recipes. Same name and all. Of course they have stones so they left the names of those in there also. I asked the consultant about it and she said that alot of times their reps turn in recipes and it was probably one of them. The taco ring and chicken and broccoli braid were two that I remember. I couldn't believe that!!!
Crystal
ParishKitchen said:Aw, shucks, thanks. To be completely honest, I didn't want to say too much because for all I knew, Jodi Bizeau could have been a longtime member of this site loved by all, and I was afraid of getting flamed for insensitively attacking poor Jodi. :angel: But now that we're all in agreement, I'll just come out and say it...
:yuck: :thumbdown: :grumpy:
BTW, I did notice that she omitted the vegetable oil from her recipe and changed the instructions to remove product references. That's pretty clever, but for goodness' sake, couldn't she have thought to change the recipe name just a little bit? The only reason I found this article was that I Googled "Tangy Pepper-Pecan Brie Cups" (the recipe cards on the new supply order form). Had she called it "Sweet, Spicy, Nutty Baked Brie," nobody would have been the wiser.
Ann, thank you for having the cojones to take this matter up to HO! :thumbup:
1) I'm Ann with no "e".ChefBeckyD said:WOW! Anne has Cojones!
chefann said:1) I'm Ann with no "e".
2) I'm not touching that one with a 10-foot pole.
touchy, touchy!!! LOL! Ann! A little sensitive about the "e", are we now? I know though, I can't tell you how many times I have to say, Cathy with a "C"!! :grumpy: Sometimes I get grumpy! My last name is one, I ALWAYS have to spell! You don't pronounce the "h" and when I just say it without spelling it, people MURDER it, when they try to say it back to me! My kids get grumpy:grumpy: about it all the time! My hubby is so use to it, that 1/2 the time he says it with the "h" just so people will at least come close to pronouncing it right!:yuck:chefann said:1) I'm Ann with no "e".
2) I'm not touching that one with a 10-foot pole.
I'm not usually too sensitive about the e - I was just giving Becky a hard time. I was on a team at work that associated occasionally with an "Anne with an e" who was a royal PITA (pain in the rear).MissChef said:touchy, touchy!!! LOL! Ann! A little sensitive about the "e", are we now? I know though, I can't tell you how many times I have to say, Cathy with a "C"!! :grumpy: Sometimes I get grumpy! My last name is one, I ALWAYS have to spell! You don't pronounce the "h" and when I just say it without spelling it, people MURDER it, when they try to say it back to me! My kids get grumpy:grumpy: about it all the time! My hubby is so use to it, that 1/2 the time he says it with the "h" just so people will at least come close to pronouncing it right!:yuck:
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