A popular «Baby Shark» song that South Korea’s young children adore and their parents often find annoying is not plagiarized, South Korea’s highest court ruled.
Aug. 14 A popular «Baby Shark» song that South Korea’s young children adore and their parents often find annoying is not plagiarized, South Korea’s highest court ruled on Thursday.
The South Korean Supreme Court ruled the Pinkfong Co. did not plagiarize the song, as claimed in 2019 by U.S. children’s songwriter Johnathan Wright, aka Johnny Only.
Wright accused Pinkfong of plagiarizing an earlier version of «Baby Shark» that he penned, but the South Korean court ruled his was just another version of several other existing songs.
The court said Wright is not the original composer and his version does not qualify as a «creative work» that is protected by intellectual property laws.
