Hardly, I'm simply not stating "they'd all go out of business and need to be quickly granted the right to copyright their recipes and sue the living daylights out of anyone who reproduces them."

People will still be creative, and those at the top of their game will still receive recognition. Significantly fewer would do so, but it would still be done.

I have stated elsewhere that I'd rather have copyrights and a deluge of crap than no copyrights and a trickle of crap. At least with the deluge the raw number of -good- works is higher. But obscenely strong and virtually perpetual copyright is ridiculous.