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.

A copyright battle over the viral song “Baby Shark,” adored by young children and often dreaded by their parents, has come to an end with a court clearing the Korean creators of the most popular version of plagiarism.

A court has dismissed a copyright claim by an American composer who accused a South Korean children’s publisher of plagiarism in its version of the catchy children’s song “ Baby Shark ”, which became a worldwide hit.