South Korean justice determines that there was no plagiarism in the children’s shark

The children’s song already has more than 16 billion reproductions on YouTube and has been at the center of a legal dispute for six years

The South Korean court rejected the accusation of copyright by Jonathan Wright in the song Baby frame This Thursday 14. The American artist said that the world -renowned version was a rewriting of your 2011 song.

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The video that won the world in 2016 was produced by South Korean society Pinkfong and, according to the court, does not constitute plagiarism, as is done on a popular song commonly sung for children.

For the magistrate, the version of Jonathan has not sufficiently changed the original to the point of being configured as a new song and therefore Baby frame It would not be a plagiarism of the American version.

Pinkfong’s recording is fired the most played video in the history of YouTube, the world -leading video platform. There are over 16 billion of reproductions.

According to the British BBC Network, the children’s song emerged in the mid -70s in the United States and may have improved its scope with the release of the Tubarão film by Steven Spielberg in 1975.

In an interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 2019, Jonathan confessed that he has ever thought of sucking in Pinkfong until the company herself has filed a cause against a political opposition party for the use of music in an advertising.

“The gears in my head start to turn … don’t it mean that my version also has copyright protection?” The American told CBC.

Source: Terra

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