On July 27, 2023, a California jury awarded Moonbug Entertainment Ltd. ("Moonbug"), owner of the popular CoComelon Nursery Rhymes YouTube Channel ("CoComelon"), $24,300,000.00 in damages against Chinese competitor Babybus (Fujian) Network Technology Co., Ltd. ("Babybus").1
CoComelon is one of the most streamed children's entertainment YouTube channels in the world. In 2022, CoComelon was streamed for more than 37.8 billion minutes.2
In August 2021, Moonbug alleged Babybus willfully infringed on its intellectual property rights in CoComelon by "blatantly copying" CoComelon's characters, settings, song titles, lyrics, and images in Babybus' "Super JoJo" brand.3 For example, in the Complaint, CoComelon alleged Babybus "slavishly copied, frame-by-frame" CoComelon's "The Boo Boo Song" in "its own, identically titled video."4 The Complaint included a side-by-side comparison of CoComelon's work, "The Boo Boo Song" and the infringing Super JoJo video "The Boo Boo Song," which illustrated the...
