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You're trying to conflate physical items with intellectual property here - that isn't how the legal system works in the US or in any country that I am aware of.
by cthalupa 7y ago
You're trying to conflate physical items with intellectual property here - that isn't how the legal system works in the US or in any country that I am aware of.
Genius has no ownership over the lyrics - they are not their intellectual property. When you get a license to mineral rights, whatever you extract is your property and you have ownership of it. That isn't the case here, and as such, it's a nonsensical analogy.
- fierarul 7y agoOK, maybe my gold example was not so good. But in what way is Google licensed? The lyrics in text format do not exist. So the 'rights owners' license something that provably does not exist and they do not have? That is valid how? Which means the license covers a process Google is allowed to apply to the recording. Since Google gets stolen lyrics I doubt their license covers that.