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I bet it’s not. Nobody is accusing Google of copying the annotations, just the lyrics. Genius didn’t write them, and they didn’t even transcribe them as you p

by CPLX 7y ago

I bet it’s not. Nobody is accusing Google of copying the annotations, just the lyrics. Genius didn’t write them, and they didn’t even transcribe them as you point out. I’m no Google fan in the context of ripping off competitors but Genius has a pretty shady history as well and it’s pretty hard to have sympathy for either of them.

giancarlostoro 7y ago
The lyrics are user submitted so sometimes a user already transcribed them on one site and ports them over. Other times its just illogical to think some lyrics site owns copyrights to the transcription of a song. Now only one single site can have it perfectly transcribed and everyone else has to shift words around in order to make it a unique work worth copyrighting? What.