Monday, September 9, 2019

Copyright and... Baby Shark?

screengrab from Baby Shark music video by Pinkfong


While the article claims that "Baby Shark" is in the public domain, it look more like a case of an orphan work to me. I remember singing a more gruesome version of this back in the day at Girl Scout camp.

What do you think? https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2019/08/26/baby-shark-copyright-infringement/

The real case here rests upon whether or not Pinkfong's version really did take significant elements from Johnny Only's recording/interpretation of the song, since the song itself obviously "belongs" to neither of them.


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