Ep. 3364 - Q&A: “Can I use other people's recipes in my children’s ebook?”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Today's listener has a new YouTube channel and wants to write a related ebook that features recipes for kids. Can she borrow and rename recipes she finds online?
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Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.
Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com
Email: team@sidehustleschool.com
Be on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questions
Connect on Instagram: @193countries
Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com
Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hey, friends, what's up? Chris Gallabow here, your host. This week, I am in Austin, Texas. I'm hosting |
| 0:11.3 | neurodiversion 26. It's my new event for neurodivergence of all types, people who identify with ADHD, |
| 0:18.5 | autism, other types of neurodivergence, or parents, partners, |
| 0:22.5 | friends, educators, clinicians, therapists, anybody in the whole broad community of neurodivergence. |
| 0:28.3 | That's what it's all about. |
| 0:29.3 | I started it last year, neurodiversion 25, and here we are a year later, doing it again. |
| 0:34.4 | So I'm excited about that. |
| 0:35.7 | We've got a public expo taking place on Saturday. Anybody in |
| 0:39.0 | the area is welcome to come by. Neurodiversion.org to learn more or neurodiversion event on |
| 0:44.9 | Instagram. Follow and see photos, videos, stories, et cetera. But of course, the show continues to roll out as |
| 0:51.1 | well. Today, I've got a question, can I use other people's recipes in my children's |
| 0:55.8 | ebook? So this listener, I think they're in Australia, they've got a YouTube channel. They want to |
| 1:01.9 | write a related ebook that features recipes for kids. So she's wondering, like, when is it okay to borrow |
| 1:07.7 | or derive creative inspiration from something that you find online, you know, which we all do to some degree? And when is it okay to borrow or derive creative inspiration from something that you find online, |
| 1:11.6 | which we all do to some degree? And when is it just stealing or plagiarism, which is not cool? |
| 1:17.5 | Okay. So let's talk about it. Can she borrow and rename recipes she finds online? |
| 1:21.9 | I'm going to do my best to give her a helpful answer. Stay tuned for her question and that answer. |
| 1:30.9 | I make thanks to our partner, Notion, for sponsoring today's episode. Notion is a pretty cool tool. I've been using it for years, and now they've got |
| 1:36.4 | something new. Notions, all new custom agents, custom agents. Just imagine if like all of the |
| 1:43.0 | quick questions that you get from email or direct messages or something else, what if they disappeared? And an AI agent took care of them, but also did a good job, you know? Well, with Notion's new custom agents, the busy work is handled. A Q&A agent can pull from your existing knowledge and Notion share answers directly in Slack so your |
| 2:01.7 | team gets the instant answers it needs without constantly interrupting your own work. I've been playing |
| 2:06.5 | around with Custom agents. It is a fun and helpful process. And just in case you don't know, |
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