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How?
Add the exact original files for this part of the record. Keep them unchanged; a different export or edit has a different fingerprint.
Add link and screenshots
The link is recorded, not fetched or verified.
can you copyright a recipe
Keep the recipe draft and its photos.
Can you copyright a recipe — Keep the recipe draft and its photos. Export your written recipe, notes and original photos. Keep a separate copy for each meaningful revision.
Your photos and files stay on your device, so keep them.
EXAMPLE
Original recipe
1 Nov 2026
Authority time: 14:02 UTC · example
Bitcoin block time: 14:10 UTC · example
Last checked: 15:02 UTC · example
Bitcoin block time: 14:10 UTC · example
Last checked: 15:02 UTC · example
✓ Dated◆ Permanent
Now keep it safe: three things
- Keep your photos and files unedited. The receipt only matches the originals. Put them in an album such as “My records”.
- Save this receipt to your camera roll.
Keep the receipt file too. The image is a handy copy; checking needs the file.
- Email it to yourself.Email it to myself
Your mail app opens a draft. Attach your receipt image and receipt file. Don’t attach your photos or documents. Timevolt does not send it or know whether it was sent.
Your record, one step at a time.
Your photos and files stay on your device, so keep them.
Local preview: files are fingerprinted here. Notes and progress stay in this browser. Keep downloaded copies; browser storage is not a backup.
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How?
Add the exact original files for this part of the record. Keep them unchanged; a different export or edit has a different fingerprint.
Add link and screenshots
The link is recorded, not fetched or verified.
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How?
Record the date, time, place and who you spoke to. New notes are saved separately rather than editing an old note.
How to keep notes that hold upWrite it down
By making a receipt you agree to the Terms and Privacy Policy. The Bitcoin record is permanent.
By making a receipt you agree to the Terms and Privacy Policy. The Bitcoin record is permanent.
How to keep notes that hold up
Write notes as soon as you can. Keep the original account rather than replacing it later; the venue decides what weight it gets.
- Write it down straight away, on paper or in the box on a step.
- Put the date, time and place at the top, and who you spoke to.
- Use their words where you can; separate what you saw from what you were told.
- Sign or initial a paper note, photograph it and add the photo.
- Never edit an old note. Add a new dated entry when something changes. A device save time is not independent time evidence or proof of event order.
Original recipe
Original recipe
01 · Keep the exact files
Export your written recipe, notes and original photos. Keep a separate copy for each meaningful revision.
Records to keep: Recipe · Photos
Original recipe
02 · Date the file’s code
Your device fingerprints the selected file or manifest. Dated follows an independent timestamp; Permanent follows Bitcoin anchoring.
An independent time, tied to the exact bytes.
Original recipe
03 · Keep the evidence
Keep versions alongside any publication or sending records. Copyright questions concern the expression as well as the date.
Keep the originals too. A changed or compressed copy has a different fingerprint.
Try a file. It stays here.
Make a test receipt on this device.
By making a receipt you agree to the Terms and Privacy Policy. The Bitcoin record is permanent.
or drop a file here
Real cases: why the saved copy matters.
Real cases where dated records mattered. We don’t claim a time receipt would have changed the result.
Australia · 2025
Keep early recipe drafts and records
Two food firms argued over who made a recipe first. One cited its 2020 print date; the other claimed use since 2016. The dispute stayed open, though the accused offered to drop two recipes from future prints.
A reported public accusation, with no court or regulator proceedings reported.
Summarized on Oct 29, 2026
Read the report ›US federal · 1996
Copyright may not cover each cookbook recipe
A book firm said its copyright covered each recipe in the book. The appeal court said the recipes at issue were not protected. It removed the earlier short-term court order that restricted their use.
Summarized on Oct 29, 2026
Read the decision ›US federal · 2001
Recipe writing can matter beyond the ingredients
A court refused to end a cookbook copying claim because the recipes had more than plain lists and steps. The copying claim went on. It dropped related state-law claims because federal copyright law covered them.
Interim ruling; no final finding of copying in the supplied account.
Summarized on Oct 29, 2026
Read the decision ›What courts, schemes and regulators say.
Positions below refer to the cited rule or record type, not endorsement of Timevolt. This service is not represented as an eIDAS qualified timestamp provider. A non-qualified timestamp does not receive the qualified timestamp presumption.
US Copyright Office regulations
37 CFR 202.1(a) lists the mere listing of ingredients or contents among things not subject to copyright
Says nothing about timestamps; it defines what is not protectable. A time receipt cannot create protection for a bare ingredient list.
Source summary as of 2026-10-28. Check the current source and applicable local rules.
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Proves / Doesn’t prove
Proves
A completed time receipt shows that the exact selected file existed by the independently witnessed time. You can check whether a later copy has the same bytes. It does not establish creation time, authorship, identity, event order, location or the truth of the contents.
Doesn’t prove
It does not prove you invented the recipe, that nobody else made it earlier, or that anyone owns copyright in it.
A timestamp cannot establish invention, ownership, priority over everyone else or copyright in ingredients and basic methods.
These are the bounds of a completed proof. The local tester does not establish any time. The chosen court, scheme or regulator decides what to accept.
Questions, answered plainly.
Your file stays on your device. During normal receipt creation, your device sends a randomized code made from its fingerprint, plus encrypted recovery data. It doesn't send the plain fingerprint or the random value that opens the code. Keep the original file and the complete receipt for checking. Privacy Policy.
Can you copyright a recipe?
A plain list of ingredients and basic steps generally is not protected. Your own written explanation, a cookbook collection, and your photos can be. Rules vary by country.
Source summary as of October 30, 2026. Check the current source and its scope.
Context for this answerWill a time receipt stop someone copying my recipe?
A completed time receipt shows that the exact selected file existed by the independently witnessed time. You can check whether a later copy has the same bytes. It does not establish creation time, authorship, identity, event order, location or the truth of the contents. Keep separate identity, process and entry-history evidence where needed.
Source summary as of October 30, 2026. Check the current source and its scope.
Context for this answerDoes a time receipt prove I invented the recipe?
A completed time receipt shows that the exact selected file existed by the independently witnessed time. You can check whether a later copy has the same bytes. It does not establish creation time, authorship, identity, event order, location or the truth of the contents.
Source summary as of October 30, 2026. Check the current source and its scope.
Context for this answerDo I need to upload my recipe?
Your file stays on your device. During normal receipt creation, your device sends a randomized code made from its fingerprint, plus encrypted recovery data. It doesn't send the plain fingerprint or the random value that opens the code. Keep the original file and the complete receipt for checking.
What if I edit the recipe later?
Any change, even a typo fix, makes a different fingerprint. Get a new receipt for each version you want dated.
Is this the same as registering copyright?
No. Registration is a separate government process. A time receipt is a dated record, supporting evidence that the exact selected file existed by the witnessed time.
Source summary as of October 30, 2026. Check the current source and its scope.
Context for this answerWhy not just email it to myself or mail it sealed?
Those are common folk methods, but dates in email metadata can be questioned and a sealed envelope is easy to doubt. A receipt from an independent timestamp authority, anchored in Bitcoin, is harder to dispute.
Source summary as of October 30, 2026. Check the current source and its scope.
Context for this answerWhat about a secret family recipe I never publish?
Keeping it secret may fall under trade secret rules, which depend on confidentiality steps, not just a date. A receipt can show that the exact written-version file existed by the witnessed time.
Source summary as of October 30, 2026. Check the current source and its scope.
Context for this answerThe file tester runs on your device. It does not issue a timestamp or take a payment.
Keep the records you already have.
Keep your original files and any existing official records while the receipt service is being prepared.