The owner of popular kids YouTube channel CoComelon convinced a jury to award it $23.4 million from Chinese competitor BabyBus Co. Ltd. for ripping off its videos.
Moonbug Entertainment Ltd. accused BabyBus of creating Super JoJo songs that were in some cases virtually frame-by-frame copies of CoComelon songs, in its lawsuit in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. Babybus conceded that it infringed seven CoComelon works before trial, but contested alleged infringement of 35 other works.
The jury found that BabyBus willfully infringed “dozens” of Moonbug’s copyrights, the Cocomelon owner’s law firm, Tyz Law Group PC, ...
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