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Genius pays royalties for using the lyrics - if their own site is to believed (and why wouldn’t it?) they’ve struck deals with every major music publisher to li
by p49k 7y ago
Genius pays royalties for using the lyrics - if their own site is to believed (and why wouldn’t it?) they’ve struck deals with every major music publisher to license display of lyrics. I don't see how that's relevant to Google taking the rest of Genius's work (data entry/proofing/etc).
- JeremyBanks 7y agoThey're obviously lying, yes. Maybe they do that now, but users used to at least to be able to add lyrics for any artist and song they wanted. There wasn't a license waiting period or anything before they went up.