17/11/2021
**With permission to post from Julie Carlyle-Thermokitchen**
UPLOADING RECIPES TO COOKIDOO
Firstly I want to thank everyone who follows me on social media, buys my cookbooks and uses my free recipes on my website www.Thermo.kitchen.
You lovely and amazing friends are the reason I can afford to develop free recipes to share, and you are the reason I can follow my food passion.
Even when you don’t spend a cent on my site you are helping me. Google sees the traffic and knows which recipes are popular and sends more people.
You may have notice I have some 3rd party advertising on my site. This is the only income I get from developing free recipes. But, because I have beautiful followers who come to my site for the recipes, that income is enough to cover my website costs, recipe development and photography. It’s not a fortune, but it is enough.
I love my Thermomix and all the improvements that are being made to our smart machine. I was looking forward to Cookidoo 3.0. There are so many Cookidoo recipes that I would like to permanently tweak! 🤦🏼♀️
However, I have become aware that Cookidoo 3.0 could spell the end of my business, my cookbooks and my website. ☹️
In the past month some people have had access to the new Cookidoo update and a few things have come to light. Some people (a VERY small minority!!) Have illegally uploaded my recipes to the Cookidoo website/app.
Unfortunately, Thermomix in Australia has not made it clear to their users that it is in breach of copyright law to upload recipes to a 3rd party website without permission.
Or that when you upload a recipe you have warranted that it is your own personal recipe and Thermomix has your permission to use it.
If you know me personally, you’ll know that I spends a huge amount of time and money creating recipes then testing them, and photographing them. It’s not uncommon for me to make a recipe 5 times before it’s ready for photography and uploaded on to my website.
Creating recipes for my lovely followers gives me so much joy! I love seeing the comments on my website and knowing people are enjoying my content. Even though they are free to use, they are not free for me to make, so I do depend on traffic to my site for the income needed to produce the content and to support the cost of my website,
Over the past few weeks I have had so many people contact me and ask me how I feel about 3.0 and the copyright issues. I have also had people tell me all the other bloggers recipes they plan to illegally upload to Cookidoo. It makes me sad because I know these people and I know they would never want to hurt our business. They love Skinnymixer, ThermoBexta, Megan from Mad Creations and Luce from Bake Play Smile, and they live ThermoKitchen. They don’t understand that uploading our recipes will put us out of business. Or that it is illegal.
I so very much value and appreciate the support of all my readers. I really hope you understand where I and my fellow bloggers are coming from as I write this.
I know everyone is excited about the new Cookidoo features, however once you upload the recipe to Cookidoo, Thermomix then has the right to that recipe. Meaning they can add it to one of their “collection” and share it with everyone. ☹️
This will make me, my website, my cookbooks and my business redundant. ☹️
I am committed to keeping all of my current and future Thermomix recipes free and available for all to use on my website for as long as I have the traffic to cover the website maintenance and recipe development costs.
But for me to do this, I ask that you please do not upload my recipes to Cookidoo as it is a breach of copyright law. In the terms of Cookidoo 3.0 Thermomix has made the users responsible for any breech of copyright infringement. This effectively takes the onus away from Thermomix to ensure their program doesn’t breach a creators copyright, and puts the legal responsibility and consequences on the general public who are uploading the recipes.
Please let your Thermomix loving friends know this too.
I know it would be so convenient to have all your favourite recipe creators on Cookidoo. Being approached to feature in a collection on Cookidoo has been a dream many of us have had. Both for ourselves and for our followers. Unforetunately Thermomix haven’t seen the value in approaching the majority of food bloggers and collaborating with them
To produce content for Cookidoo.
If followers upload our recipes to Cookidoo, we will probably never get the opportunity to work with Thermomix and create a recipe collection for you.
The last thing recipe creators want it to issue copyright law infringement notices to people who genuinely don’t know they are hurting us - so please help me to spread the word that is ILLEGAL to upload recipes to Cookidoo without permission from the owner.
so happen to see one of my recipes on Cookidoo, please let me know so I can start the process of having it removed.
Thank you so much, ### Julie Carlyle
P.S from the new Cookidoo user agreement
In particular, the User has to make sure that the import of Imported Recipes (both by the User and by Vorwerk as a result of providing the import feature) does not violate the terms of use of the respective third party website.
