Plagiarism Accusations Against Influencer Brooke Bellamy: Do the Recipes Belong to Someone?

Who owns the recipes? The food writers or everyone else? In Australia, food content creator Brooke Bellamy has been accused of plagiarism by two people: Nagi Maehashi, founder of the culinary website "RecipeTin Eats" and author of two cookbooks, and Sally McKenney, creator of the site "Sally's Baking Addiction." They accuse the woman, who has over two million followers on TikTok, of copying a recipe for baklava and vanilla cake "word for word." "I feel like my work is being blatantly exploited. Seeing these recipes plagiarized and used in a book for profit is unfair," Nagi Maehashi lamented.

Especially since Brooke Bellamy's opus is a success. Since October 2024, Bake with Brooki has sold nearly 100,000 copies. To her peers, the Australian influencer retorted: "I have not plagiarized any recipes in my book, which consists of 100 recipes that I have created over the years. Recipe development in today's world is made up of inspiration from other cooks, cookbook authors, food bloggers, and content creators." Despite her denials, Brooke Bellamy has decided to remove the problematic recipes from future reprints...

Social media is regularly the breeding ground for these greedy controversies. To avoid being accused of plagiarism, some creators