Food authors say Australian influencer copied their recipes

ABC Kids Nagi Maehashi’s RecipeTin Eats food website attracts a monthly readership of 45 million page views. Two cookbook authors have accused TikTok influencer Brooke Bellamy of copying their recipes. Nagi Maehashi, the Australian founder of popular food website RecipeTin Eats, said Ms Bellamy’s cookbook contains recipes with “word-for-word similarities to mine”. Ms Bellamy, who … Read more

Photos: Speakers and authors at the 2025 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

As the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books kicked off Saturday across the sprawling campus at USC, the event once again became a magnet for a mix of celebrity authors from across the entertainment world and beyond. Special guests like poet Amanda Gorman, actor Wil Wheaton, singer JoJo and comedian Hannah Berner popped by our … Read more

‘We need to speak up’: Authors protest against Meta training AI on their work

Andrew Rogers BBC Newsbeat Jack Strange Jack landed his dream publishing deal last year but found his self-published works had been scraped Landing a publishing deal was a dream come true for Jack Strange. “It was incredible. I’d had so many rejections along the way,” he says. “So when someone said yes, I cried because … Read more