Genius: We Caught Google 'Red Handed' Stealing Lyrics Data (2019)

https://www.pcmag.com/news/genius-we-caught-google-red-handed-stealing-lyrics-data

by berkeleyjunk • 4 years ago

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sigmonsays• 4 years ago

Nothing will happen to google, they already passed blame. Too bad too. The actual content creators are getting taken out of the loop and google sits there pleading ignorance.

JadeNB• 4 years ago

While there's a lot of stuff Google does wrong, it's not clear to me (except in cases, such as mentioned in the article, where the artist themselves officially gives the lyrics to Genius) that "displaying lyrics from another site that also doesn't own them" is the crime for which they should be hanged.

advisedwang• 4 years ago

The lawsuit failed [1], Genius appealed [2], which also failed. Genius doesn't own the copyright on lyrics!

[1] https://completemusicupdate.com/article/genius-lyric-theft-c...

[2] https://completemusicupdate.com/article/genius-tries-to-get-...

[3] https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2022/03/11/google-lyricfind...

soyiuz• 4 years ago

This is from 2019. In March of 2022 Google won the case. https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/11/22973282/google-wins-cour...

Neither owns the copyright, and therefore cannot claim infringement. The irony is that Rap Genius began by publishing lyrics without permission.

tracerbulletx• 4 years ago

Google uses indexed sites to build up their knowledge graph and semantic understanding of concepts occurring in search, both via explicit JSON-LD semantic tags, and their own inferences. Any feature on google that seems to understand that what you just searched for is a song or a recipe or a company or a person or a movie the data came from some page in the index. Which of course includes lyrics.

DoItToMe81• 4 years ago

Lyrics data? LMAO. You don't own the lyrics, nor do you have some stake over words.