Chef Elizabeth Haigh (above) had to withdraw a recipe book she had published, after being accused of copying or paraphrasing recipes from Sharon Wee’s book Growing up in a Nonya Kitchen. Photo: YouTube
‘How can you copyright scrambled eggs?’ Recipe plagiarism troubles chefs but they lack legal redress
- What happens when a chef finds one of their recipes reproduced without their consent or passed off as someone else’s on a food blog or in a cookbook?
- Recipes are generally not protected under intellectual property laws and there is a fine line between inspiration and plagiarism
Chef Elizabeth Haigh (above) had to withdraw a recipe book she had published, after being accused of copying or paraphrasing recipes from Sharon Wee’s book Growing up in a Nonya Kitchen. Photo: YouTube
