Recipe websites that have a 15 page story for each recipe without a way to skip to the actual recipe.
This is a quirk of copyright law. You can’t copyright a recipe unless it’s attached to a story. Because recipes aren’t considered creative works, for some reason. So you’re not copyrighting the recipe; You’re copyrighting the story, which was a creative writing exercise. Basically, without a story attached to it, the recipe is free for anyone to steal and resell in a cookbook or paid site.
This is a quirk of copyright law. You can’t copyright a recipe unless it’s attached to a story. Because recipes aren’t considered creative works, for some reason. So you’re not copyrighting the recipe; You’re copyrighting the story, which was a creative writing exercise. Basically, without a story attached to it, the recipe is free for anyone to steal and resell in a cookbook or paid site.
There’s probably some SEO “hack” involved, too.
Either way, as a user, it’s infuriating.