Loved your take on the RecipeTin Eats and Bellamy drama. Part of me is thankful that Maehashi has started the discourse about recipe plagiarism and whether or not it is or should be a thing, but for the entire story to get this far is absolutely insane.
I feel frustrated on behalf of Nagi because if you listen to what she said she was really reluctant to bring this public. She's spent months engaging with Penguins legal team and trying to resolve this. She has publicly said if Brooki had asked permission she would have given it. The internet attacks are not okay but it also wasn't okay for Penguin to not engage with Nagi and hope she would go away. Her options were then do nothing or make it public. It stinks of a big company knowing they are putting someone between a rock and a hard place and that they hoped she would be quiet.
Also, how are you meant to deal with copyright infringement when the other author doesn't respond to personal letters or legal letters and puts their head in the sand. This might never have been a public fight had they been able to talk it over with maturity and recognise wrongdoing, instead it has been charged with online fervour that only benefits tech bros (you are exactly right Clare).
As for Jia, what a bloody great writer. Thanks for reminding me of her work
Thanks for sharing great writing Clare, no matter how bleak! As for the Nagi/Brooki thing, I like both of them. Who actually cares enough about this to write death threats or stand outside Brooke's store and protest? I just don't get it.
Loved your take on the RecipeTin Eats and Bellamy drama. Part of me is thankful that Maehashi has started the discourse about recipe plagiarism and whether or not it is or should be a thing, but for the entire story to get this far is absolutely insane.
I feel frustrated on behalf of Nagi because if you listen to what she said she was really reluctant to bring this public. She's spent months engaging with Penguins legal team and trying to resolve this. She has publicly said if Brooki had asked permission she would have given it. The internet attacks are not okay but it also wasn't okay for Penguin to not engage with Nagi and hope she would go away. Her options were then do nothing or make it public. It stinks of a big company knowing they are putting someone between a rock and a hard place and that they hoped she would be quiet.
Also, how are you meant to deal with copyright infringement when the other author doesn't respond to personal letters or legal letters and puts their head in the sand. This might never have been a public fight had they been able to talk it over with maturity and recognise wrongdoing, instead it has been charged with online fervour that only benefits tech bros (you are exactly right Clare).
As for Jia, what a bloody great writer. Thanks for reminding me of her work
Thanks for sharing great writing Clare, no matter how bleak! As for the Nagi/Brooki thing, I like both of them. Who actually cares enough about this to write death threats or stand outside Brooke's store and protest? I just don't get it.