29-Year-Old Gets $15 Million to Decipher Song Lyrics 13 years ago
(disclaimer: posting anonymously because I work for a competitor)
Does RapGenius have the proper licensing to republish these lyrics?
Nope. I'm always a bit surprised this never gets brought up.
Is that what the funding is for?
Doubtful. If it was, they would have licensing by now - and you don't need anywhere near that much money for it, countless smaller sites have licensing.
Lyric websites have been shutdown many times for this.
Yup. Most of the big "illegal" lyric sites are outside the US, but RapGenius is not. Should be interesting.